David Cameron Threatens 'Wild Animal Bill' Mark Pritchard MP

The Tory MP Mark Pritchard made a pretty good fist of sacrificing his political career under David Cameron this afternoon, by revealing in some detail how Downing Street has been leaning on him to drop his motion calling for a ban on live animals performing in English circuses.

The Wrekin MP said he had first been offered a “pretty trivial job” if he backed off, and had then been “threatened” by Number 10, who had told him that David Cameron would look upon it “dimly” if he forced a debate.

He told the House: “I may just be a little council house lad from a very poor background but that background gives me a backbone, it gives me a thick skin. And I am not going to be kowtowed (sic) by the whips or even the prime minister of my country on an issue that I feel passionately about, that I have conviction about.”

MPs defied David Cameron and backed a ban on wild animals being used in circuses in England .See VIDEO HERE

24th June 2011

Speaking at an EU summit in Brussels, Mr Cameron said the government's position was "not a million miles away" from that taken by Mark Pritchard. Mr Cameron told reporters his office were not "slavering rottweilers" and "gentle and reasonable" talks were had.

 

Joy Schaverien says – We all know how ghastly the care system is. Half of young people in custody are products of the care system. The harmful effects they describe affect personality and especially emotional development, and are more marked in males than females.

In my view these effects include: inability to cope with powerful emotions or discuss one’s feelings, raucous joshing, humorous punching and teasing as a substitute for meaningful conversation, drinking to oblivion (for men) – especially when in the presence of women – and an air of being tightly buttoned-up overall. In relationships these problems with intimacy show themselves as emotional detachment.

Our current Prime Minister is a product of this educational system. An Old Etonian himself, he likes to surround himself with OEs and has more old boys from his school around him than any PM since Harold Macmillan.

Mr Cameron shows symptoms of Boarding school Syndrome in the Commons at PMQs and has the swagger of a puffed up prefect.

And there’s a hint of cold cruelty in those put-downs with which he swats Ed Miliband and the heads of the British armed forces, and most recently absent fathers, single parents and the British public that he has forgotten he is supposed to be serving.

There’s the suspicion of pleasure taken in savage verbal punishment and also in the way he deals with ordinary people, or forgets to say thank you to people who’d helped him.

Andrew Pierce in the Mail reported on Mr Cameron’s ruthlessness in Bullying the party’s new junior MPs as he has tried to enforce ruthless ­discipline commonly known as the Flashman Tendency.

The boarding school boy can’t risk too much self-revelation or intimacy, because that is to show weakness. Starved of intimacy during the formative years, he learns that the most important thing is to protect himself.

Mr Cameron might not deliberately be rude, though this can’t be ruled out. But it’s possible that his insensitivity is a sign that, over the years, he has developed the tough exterior of the boarding-school boy. Meaning, in short, that there could be a touch of the Bully about him.

This was never going to happen, given the costs associated with sending even more people to prison. Yet the consequence is a law-abiding majority being offended and bemused by this Government’s mixed messages.

For, in light of yesterday’s U-Turn, can anyone be certain that sentencing will be both robust, and transparent, under David Cameron?

A senior RAF officer said: “This was an extraordinarily patronising outburst verging on the outrageous.

I think the PM should do a bit more listening and a little less talking. Essentially he’s giving us the Charge of the Light Brigade orders – 'Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and to die’.”

The speech came after generals criticised the government's latest plan to have a military presence in every country in the world just in case anything kicks off.


In a speech many predict may be his last, the prime minister suggested that the armed forces stopped whining like a bitch and get back to work.

He effectively told the military to shut up and concentrate on fighting instead of trying to embarrass ministers. Serving and retired senior officers have been warning for weeks of overstretch due to cutbacks ordered by the Government while Britain is fighting in Afghanistan and Libya.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg are 'savage and evil people', says one of the BBC’s top screenwriting stars, Russell T Davies.

The Welsh writer – who led the revival of Doctor Who in 2005 – attacked the Conservative Party, claiming "There is a great intelligence behind the Tory party that says let's appear slightly bumbling and slightly buffoonish, while they are lethal as a laser underneath it all."

He said the Coalition had effectively silenced protest from BBC staff over the Television licence fee being frozen for the next six years by making it part of wider Government spending cuts.

Just 24 hours after the Prime Minister rebuked military chiefs for publicly criticising the Government, General Sir Peter Wall, the Chief of the General Staff, suggests in a television programme that Mr Cameron’s 2015 “deadline” to end combat operations could slip.

Mr Cameron had angrily told RAF and Navy chiefs who questioned the mission in Libya: “You do the fighting, I’ll do the talking.”

The Prime Minister is now at odds with the heads of the Armed Forces on the operations in both Afghanistan and Libya, leading to warnings about the strained relations between civilian and military leaders.

23rd June 2011

VIDEO 'No ifs, no buts' on 2015 Afghan withdrawal, William Hague says

Foreign Secretary sends military chiefs clear message, saying that by 2015 there will be no British troops engaged in combat.

David Cameron has forced Kenneth Clarke to drop more than 60% of his original proposals on legal aid, sentencing of prisoners and punishment of offenders.

Cameron is getting this badly deeply wrong.  And now he's having a pop, a lazy, snide, disrespectful pop at the men and women who are at the sharp end.

Rowan Williams is a courageous, deeply spiritual and compassionate man. He has the strength and conviction to stand up for the poorest in our society. Thank God he is there, there must be other men and women in leadership who are concerned about what this Government is doing on a daily basis and who will speak up? The church projects that Mr Phibbs talks about are admirable and should indeed be encouraged - but it is unlikely that "church projects" - however well run - are going to come close to meeting the many needs which exist today. Archbishop Rowan Williams will be only too aware of this