David Cameron is now claiming divine inspiration for his Big Society bollocks.
David Cameron has claimed divine inspiration was at work when it came to drafting a key concept for Conservative Party policy.
Speaking last night at his Easter reception in Downing Street, the Prime Minister reportedly said he was simply doing God’s work when he launched the “Big Society” initiative of volunteering and civic responsibility.
“Jesus invented the Big Society 2,000 years ago,” Mr Cameron said. “I just want to see more of it.”
The short response to this pile of unmitigated claptrap is “fuck off!” Now and quickly please.
The second, more considered response is that actually there are many of us who are not religious, do not follow Jesus Christ and would prefer it if our politicians maintained a purely secular role. Religion is a personal matter. If Cameron wants to believe in mythical, supernatural creatures that live in the sky and watch over us – well, he is entitled to do so. If he wants to try and commune with this mythical supernatural creature, he is welcome to do so – but the moment he attempts to use this as an excuse to tell me what to do, then he has crossed a line. I do not believe in his god, I despise his religion and I want no part of his big society. So, er, fuck off.
Whenever a politician starts doing God., my skin starts to crawl. Government is not a place to proselytize. So, er fuck off.
In the article Cameron at least states something which is true –
“If there are things that are stopping you from doing more, think of me as a giant Dyno-Rod,”
Yes. Quite, judging by the amount of verbal diarrohea that spews forth from him, and “we are all in it together”. Priceless.
Couldn’t agree more. Politics should be a purely secular occupation, and nothing turns me off faster than proselytising from the pulpit.
As you say, he is perfectly entitled to his beliefs, but since I don’t share them, his utterances on that level are meaningless.
Stick to politics Cameron, even though you aren’t very good at it.
This Easter address, would it perhaps have been delivered to a load of religious types who had been bused into Downing Street specifically to hear it? If that is the case then DC is simply spouting the drivel that he thinks that his target audience wants to hear.
Well Blair claimed to have a hotline to God (despite Alky Campbell’s “We don’t do God”).
Truly this old Etonian twat is the “heir to Blair” – and just as despicable, dishonest, untrustworthy, (continues for ever with similar appropriate epithets).
Campbell’s “We don’t do God” comment to a Vanity Fair journalist was intended to keep the Labour government separate from Blair’s religious statements that had been in a Telegraph piece in 1996 for the very reason LR suggests. Campbell knew that politicians spouting religious sentiment sounds appalling to the majority and wanted to distance the government from it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1429109/Campbell-interrupted-Blair-as-he-spoke-of-his-faith-We-dont-do-God.html
And he was right to do so – while politicians like anyone else are entitled to their delusions, they have no place in policy and I absolutely do not want to be preached to by these sanctimonious fuckers.
And Camoron turning into Blair gives me a really horrible case of Deja vu.
Meanwhile, what’s the alternative?
Milibean.
ARRRRGGGH!
Dear Mr. Cameron,
I stopped believing in invisible friends when I was six. What’s your excuse?
Yours,
Me.