We are watching the special question time "american-stylee" debate between the two potential Tory leaders and well... it's all rather lame. The two Davids seem to be very busy complimenting each other with Davis being all nodding and fatherly and Cameron being the nice loyal toffish middle manager. The reality is probably that they are both ruthless bastards, but are being all nice with their claws carefully sheathed. It all kicked off with that age old political question; What is more important, youth or experience?
Young-Dave is young but experienced (because he swanned around the world dabbling with the media) and Old-Dave is just experienced so it doesn't matter but thinks Young-Dave is very talented. Nod nod nod.
We are not quite sure who is a stooge for who at this point - we can see it either way round. They pretend to disagree about taxes for a while and for some reason they seem to be fraying somewhat, looking a little hot, pink and waving their pens around as if they actually disagreed. But they didn't.
Old-Dave believes in marriage and Young-Dave thinks marriage is the bedrock of society. They are even going to pay people to do it (through the tax system). Old-Dave wants to look after the bottom quarter of society and Young-Dave wants to be good to the young people and not be a little old man on a park bench. The old women in the audience think the Daves are being rude and that little old ladies and men are not an "image problem".
Both of them promised not to lie and that there were no terrible secrets and that they aren't anything like that other Dave, you know, the one who got sacked again today. Like many I'm rather glad that Blunkett has gone down a peg or two again but the pessimist in me thinks it won't make him go away completely for some time.
Oh yes and they both like bloodsports and Young-Dave likes to get smack heads into every school. He likes ecstasy but just as he is coming up on e's he gets told off for waffling by one of the old men in the audience. Poor little Dave.
The funny thing is back in the days when Maggie was in power we would have never thought that in 20 years, the Tories would have just been replaced by equally right-wing loons calling themselves the Labour Party and that the country would be so stupid and middle-classyfied that good honest working people can't even afford a house because they are all so over inflated... but I digress.
Housing? The war? Terrorism? Civil liberties? Issues that we actually give a shit about? Hardly a sausage. No surprises.
