Ok, Hello! Politics

TonyHannon Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 01:12:35 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Mr. Cameron – I didn’t want to see your family on the news. I’m sure they’re perfectly lovely and you’re completely dedicated to them but this was a poor decision –not least because of the reason you gave.



“In modern politics,” Cameron says, “voters want to know what makes politicians tick.”  “The family,” he continued, “was at the heart of his politics and he wanted voters to really believe that.” 

What he means is: “In modern political marketing – voters are more accessible if they can humanise us. Snapshots of me and my beautiful family are a demonstration of my humanity and I’d like people to see that.”

This was unnecessary. I believe Cameron is a decent family guy. I’m sure he is a committed father and loving husband – we didn’t need this marketing. We really didn’t.

What when the feral media go digging after the little girl’s school report cards? What when some jerk who dated his wife as a teenager tries to sell a story to a tabloid? What when the nanny says something that gets twisted out of proportion and finds itself the subject of unfounded discussion on bloggers’ sites?

Mr Cameron, or any other politician, can be a great guy at home or a distant workaholic insofar as his role in public life is concerned. Get the politics right – let the marketing support it rather than the other way around.

It’s a further plunge into the world of political discussion without substance. In Britain, we really didn’t need that. 


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Re: Ok, Hello! Politics (#1)

by lastword on Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 04:59:06 PM GMT

It's his choice.  I've already said on this site that the way Brown has made no impact at all with his personality, Cameron is starting to look a very attractive option for "non political" people in this country.  People should not write him off.  Labour's only hope is  to skip a generation and replace Brown with a leader fit for this century.  And no, Balls is not the answer!


Re: Ok, Hello! Politics (#2)

by doctordunc on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 11:55:19 AM GMT

Is this an early salvo in the Miliband campaign?

But which Miliband?


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Re: Ok, Hello! Politics (#3)

by Limony on Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 08:59:51 PM GMT

Is that an invitation?

OK. Glen Milliband - He'd cheer up the troops and there'd be no more stuff about broken covenants.


Re: Ok, Hello! Politics (#4)

by alexhilton on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 11:17:39 AM GMT

Steve Millerband? Ir is he too much of a Joker?


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