David Cameron

[Master]

The revelations in the Daily Mail serialisation of Ashcroft’s unauthorised biography are starting to thin out but there are some interesting snippets.

The Daily Mail has another four and a half pages from Lord Ashcroft’s biography of David Cameron on Wednesday. In news terms, it is starting to get a bit thin – one of the spreads is about Cameron being posh, and another is about colleagues thinking he does not believe in much – but the material is very readable and there are some interesting revelations.

Here are five of them.

1) Boris Johnson secured more than £90m for policing in London by threatening to disrupt the Conservative conference if he did not get the money, the book claims.

2) Margaret Thatcher thought Cameron was shallow.

3) In 1990, when Margaret Thatcher resigned and John Major, Douglas Hurd and Michael Heseltine were contesting the leadership, Cameron, who was working for the party at the time, told all three campaigns that he was backing them.

4) Cameron agreed that Greg Dyke could be a joint Conservative/Lib Dem candidate for London mayor in 2008.

5) A former KGB officer has said the KGB did try to recruit Cameron when he visited the country as a teenager in 1985.

Ashcroft's Cameron biography: day three – what we learned | Politics | The Guardian

[Britkid]

People say 'the left' love nothing more than bitching about each other, and that is true, but The Tories are better at it because they brood and wait and try and strike at the best time to gain maximum revenge.

That said the extracts seem to lack the 'killer blow' to cause real political damage, but it is quite funny Dave has a new nickname; and I think 'Porky' Cameron may last a while...

[Dia bando]

The only good tory is a dead one.

[walrus]

Cameron is a great as man, I Might become a Brit so I can vote for him

[Master]

Cameron is a great as man, I Might become a Brit so I can vote for him

You would pay to watch him too.

[Britkid]

Cameron is a great as man, I Might become a Brit so I can vote for him

Maybe you could become his piglet? He would enjoy that!

[Gandalf]

People say 'the left' love nothing more than bitching about each other, and that is true, but The Tories are better at it because they brood and wait and try and strike at the best time to gain maximum revenge.

That said the extracts seem to lack the 'killer blow' to cause real political damage, but it is quite funny Dave has a new nickname; and I think 'Porky' Cameron may last a while...

It shouldn't take a few extracts from a book to harm Cameron. All the harm is in his government and their policies. A man with a dead disabled child wantonly attacks the poorest most vulnerable people in society leaving them forced into work, destitute and many dead. The man that allows tax evasion for the super rich, yet administered a system where the poor must pay their court costs and go to prison for crimes such as chocolate bar and baby food theft. A man that bombed Libya which is a war crime. A man that sells arms to groups on the so called terrorist watch list. The man that inflicts austerity, despite the national debt doubling and the super rich doubling their wealth. You could easily go on with another dozen or so observations.

[walrus]

People say 'the left' love nothing more than bitching about each other, and that is true, but The Tories are better at it because they brood and wait and try and strike at the best time to gain maximum revenge.

That said the extracts seem to lack the 'killer blow' to cause real political damage, but it is quite funny Dave has a new nickname; and I think 'Porky' Cameron may last a while...

It shouldn't take a few extracts from a book to harm Cameron. All the harm is in his government and their policies. A man with a dead disabled child wantonly attacks the poorest most vulnerable people in society leaving them forced into work, destitute and many dead. The man that allows tax evasion for the super rich, yet administered a system where the poor must pay their court costs and go to prison for crimes such as chocolate bar and baby food theft. A man that bombed Libya which is a war crime. A man that sells arms to groups on the so called terrorist watch list. The man that inflicts austerity, despite the national debt doubling and the super rich doubling their wealth. You could easily go on with another dozen or so observations.

Yes, this coming from a guy who recently complimented Kim of north Korea for his fiscal policy. I love your political views miles, they are classic, and I actually mean that.

[Gandalf]

People say 'the left' love nothing more than bitching about each other, and that is true, but The Tories are better at it because they brood and wait and try and strike at the best time to gain maximum revenge.

That said the extracts seem to lack the 'killer blow' to cause real political damage, but it is quite funny Dave has a new nickname; and I think 'Porky' Cameron may last a while...

It shouldn't take a few extracts from a book to harm Cameron. All the harm is in his government and their policies. A man with a dead disabled child wantonly attacks the poorest most vulnerable people in society leaving them forced into work, destitute and many dead. The man that allows tax evasion for the super rich, yet administered a system where the poor must pay their court costs and go to prison for crimes such as chocolate bar and baby food theft. A man that bombed Libya which is a war crime. A man that sells arms to groups on the so called terrorist watch list. The man that inflicts austerity, despite the national debt doubling and the super rich doubling their wealth. You could easily go on with another dozen or so observations.

Yes, this coming from a guy who recently complimented Kim of north Korea for his fiscal policy. I love your political views miles, they are classic, and I actually mean that.

It is easy to deflect. What is it you dislike about my stance on central banking?

[walrus]

I have no reason to deflect Miles, I'm not involved in British politics, just read up on it a bit so I know what you guys are talking about plus its fun to have the jabs we have betwixt each other but you complimenting North Korea for having no central bank was funny. The Kim family is the central bank. You've seen the satellite pictures of a darkened North Korea. Kim builds one of the largest military's, makes nukes and now an alleged space program while his people starve. His poet laureate defected and he spoke of the rampant starvation and dead children that is common in the country. We all know leaders live in opulence but Kim does so why his nation dies.oddly, he blackmailed the US into feeding his country. Remember his nuke deal with Clinton. So yes, you'll probably respond with the usual the US does such and such but I'd like to hear your take on starvation, political prisoners. Saber rattling, killing of generals who he feels challenge his power, propaganda of North Korea.these despots will always exist in the world but the suffering of the North Koreans truly bothers me. Books and interviews by defectors is quite a shocking thing.

We had hope when this young guy took power things might change but I'm convinced there is mental illness in this guy. So what do you think, we know America is bad, but separating America for a few minutes, what do you think of North Korea. Does not having a central bank even out the scales.