He has been paraded before us as the Great White Hope. Presented to us as the man to lead us through the mess of New labour policies and mis-management. Cameron will dispell the myth of the violent hoodie with one fell hug! Together with his sidekick, the pinky-sized, partisan, point-scoring parliamentarian Thatcher Mini-Me, our baseball-cap-wearing everyman, William Hague, they would make the oafish Brown look ... well, oafish. Surely they would with their ascerbic wit, winning policies and charisma. Especially after all the sleaze, the economy, the health service, house prices and ....emmmm everything.
So there it was, the opportunity, after the Queens speech they would verbally thrash him to within an inch of his Scottish tousle-haired existence... surely. But hey, it never happened. In fact Gordon Brown's dignity was the brightest light in the commons that day. The fact is that clever parliamentarians are all very entertaining but when times get tough we don't want our politicians sounding like shallow PR soundbites (Cameron) or third billing at Jongluers Open Mic nite (Hague). If the Conservative party is ever to topple the ever-strengthening Brown government they will need something more than a clueless scout leader. So just as doubts are being voiced up steps the new kid on the block, the young Barack Obama who, on meeting with the wonderkid, summed it up in one career-destroying sentence. Three words that will haunt our new young pretender.... "What a lightweight!".
Those who had previously stated that the emperor has no clothes were the opposition and this small isle is so dual party point scoring that any valid argument is seen as simply that. Point scoring. Politicians here don't make valid arguments without delivering a huge portion of the blame at the feet of the incoming/outgoing/incumbent opposite party. As a result their statement becomes weightless - lightweight indeed.
The difference here is stark. Obama has no opposition party axe to grind. He has forsaken the right to be circumspect or polite. He never said the Honourable Gentleman is a lightweight! He delivered it as it is. I think I am looking forward to President Obama's term in office. Who will be next. "Oi! Mugabe, call that a moustache, you're economics are even worse than your dire dress sense. Vacate your office yesterday!"
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