david Cameron

The choice of the Conservative-party grasroots to elect David Cameron as the party`s new leader marks a change in the main opposition party of Britain. At the age of 39 he is very young for a leader of a major political party. His age, however, is quite beside the point, that the Tories need transforming and in that respect the choice of Mr. Cameron very well serves that purpose.

However, one is easily deceived by the age-factor of the new party-leader. In fact for the past 40 years has the party elected its leaders from relatively humble origins. Mr.Cameron is different.

He belongs to a family of very prominent former Conservative MP`s.

He is the first Eton-educated Conservative leader since Sir Alec Douglas-Home in the early 1960s and is a member, along with Prince Charles and his sons, of exclusive Mayfair gentleman's club White's.

He is even, it turns out according to reports this week, distantly-related to the Queen.

Yet with his mountain bike and fondness for indie rock music Mr Cameron also likes to be seen as a man of the people which can easily be dubbed as a load of rubbish.

His famed fondness for real British ale can as well be dubbed as being pretentious. Despite the excerpt from the BBC-website:

"Recently, in a bid to dispel his "toff" image, he told the Sun newspaper he enjoys a pint of real ale, rather than champagne, and that he smokes Marlboro Lights cigarettes (a habit he has repeatedly vowed to quit)."

What a load of hypocritical upper-class Tory pretentiousness!


Unbelievable that such a figure of very low stature can rise up to a position of being a party-leader of a major political party in a very major Western-European country. After all, he is to be the likely Prime Minister of Britain after 2009-10 since the very long term of labour turns against itself and people are willing to vote for any alternative to the Blair-Brown-hegemony.