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Jane Merrick
Jane Merrick is the Political Editor of the Independent on Sunday. She has been a political journalist for seven years, previously working at the Press Association and the Daily Mail
Hmmmmm. First it was the "trashy novel" comment on Andrew Marr on Sunday, now David Cameron has sworn - twice! - during an interview with Absolute radio.
The "trashy novel" remark sounded like a very deliberate / accidentally on purpose move to make the Tory leader sound like one of us. In the past he's sent rather bossy summer reading lists to his MPs - I think last summer was Nudge? Anyway, sounding more like 1990s Tony Blair by the day, he's telling us he will kick back on a sun lounger with a bit of Jackie Collins or Patricia Cornwell.
It was the most interesting thing in the otherwise very dull Marr interview (by the way, I thought Nick Robinson v good interviewing Peter Mandelson last night, especially when the First Sec was wriggling over use of word "cuts"; perhaps Nick should take over the Sunday prime slot - what would it be called: Breakfast with Robbo? Robinson's Morning Jam? Er, maybe not.)
Anyway, back to Cameron: now he's had a go at Twitter (has he been reading that teenage kid's Morgan Stanley paper on what the youth like/don't like?), saying "too many tweets make a twat". I wish I'd heard it, because it would've made me laugh out loud in a slightly childish manner. Then he said that voters are "pissed off". Oooh.
Has Cameron "gaffed"? I doubt it. He doesn't say anything without thinking about it. This is Dave the Ordinary Bloke, and we'd better get used to him.
UPDATE: Cameron's in France, and no-one in Westminster seems to have heard of Absolute Radio, so I just checked with Tory twitterer and head of press Henry Macrory to see if his interview was genuine. And it "sure was", he says nonchalantly.
The "trashy novel" remark sounded like a very deliberate / accidentally on purpose move to make the Tory leader sound like one of us. In the past he's sent rather bossy summer reading lists to his MPs - I think last summer was Nudge? Anyway, sounding more like 1990s Tony Blair by the day, he's telling us he will kick back on a sun lounger with a bit of Jackie Collins or Patricia Cornwell.
It was the most interesting thing in the otherwise very dull Marr interview (by the way, I thought Nick Robinson v good interviewing Peter Mandelson last night, especially when the First Sec was wriggling over use of word "cuts"; perhaps Nick should take over the Sunday prime slot - what would it be called: Breakfast with Robbo? Robinson's Morning Jam? Er, maybe not.)
Anyway, back to Cameron: now he's had a go at Twitter (has he been reading that teenage kid's Morgan Stanley paper on what the youth like/don't like?), saying "too many tweets make a twat". I wish I'd heard it, because it would've made me laugh out loud in a slightly childish manner. Then he said that voters are "pissed off". Oooh.
Has Cameron "gaffed"? I doubt it. He doesn't say anything without thinking about it. This is Dave the Ordinary Bloke, and we'd better get used to him.
UPDATE: Cameron's in France, and no-one in Westminster seems to have heard of Absolute Radio, so I just checked with Tory twitterer and head of press Henry Macrory to see if his interview was genuine. And it "sure was", he says nonchalantly.
Comments
Most nauseating was the attempt by Mr Rudd to disguise it as a slip of the tongue rather than what it was - a contrived attempt by a nerd at street talk. Here again, this Cameron episode appears totally staged. In order to communicate with "lower standard" people, it appears standards have to be lowered.