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David Cameron will go from Mr Teflon to Mr Toxic in no time



In many ways, David Cameron is the perfect leader. He is a man more popular than his party, and some people on the whole think he’s a safe pair of hands in sorting out the mess that Labour created.

They trust the Conservatives more. However, the facts speak from themselves. Within a shorter period than two years, they have seen the economy go from growth to recession, with much of the deficit being used to pay off for the army of unemployed who have suffered from lack of investment in UK Plc.

David Cameron is however doing something rather similar to Margaret Thatcher – in the dying days of the Thatcher administration. His name has become mud in Europe, but equally significantly he is being utterly despised by large swathes of society, such as medics, nurses, teachers, disabled citizens, lawyers, to name but a few.

At a stage soon, I feel that he will go from Mr Teflon to Mr Toxic, and quite suddenly. I can’t explain how or why this will suddenly happen. There has been a steady drip-drip of incompetence, whether this is Warsi’s expenses, Hunt’s ‘quasi-judicial role’, Fox’s flamboyant lobbying, Coulson’s departure, or whatever you choose to mention.

I feel at that point it would be desirable for Labour to go back to its roots. Fed up with our utilities being owned by foreign venture capital companies, legal aid being scrapped for the most disadvantaged in society, and proposals to boost opposition to unfair dismissal, Labour should put at the heart of its policy social capital and value. It should shrug off the idea that people are the obstacles to making a better society; the bankers created a huge amount of destruction which many others are still paying for, while the top receive tax breaks. Labour should enshrine in its policy a return to the people in society who made it – workers and employees. People are at the heart of business, and how our civil society should operate.

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