Many politicians have had words or phrases associated with them, for good or ill. Churchill had ‘we will fight them on the beaches’, Macmillan had ‘you’ve never had it so good’, Wilson had the phrase ‘the white heat of technology’ and Thatcher had ‘the lady’s not for turning’.
So what will Cameron be remembered for? It probably will not be for something positive at a time of national emergency like Churchill’s, nor extremely redolent and telling about the atmosphere of the times in which it was said like Wilson’s but will be something much more ignominious. Cameron will be remembered for dishonestly uttering the phrase ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ after various atrocities carried out by the followers of Islam. Cameron has fiddled the truth about Islam and diddled the public out of something that is the minimum that we should expect a government to do, which is to protect its citizens from threats.
After murderous Muslims decapitated a British soldier, after Islamic jihadis slaughtered thousands upon thousands in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, after a growing number of ‘British’ Muslims were caught attempting to join the Islamic jihad against freedom, Cameron uttered a variation on the phrase ‘Islam is a religion of peace’. To describe Islam as peaceful is a gross misnomer and even though many Muslims are peaceful that doesn’t mean that the ideology of Islam itself is peaceful. Violence and oppression is far closer to the surface in Islam than it is in other monotheistic religions and there is little to be gained in not recognising that fact.
Cameron’s willingness to say ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ at the most inopportune times is immensely troubling, and the fact that he seems to be almost Nero-like in his inability to carry on sawing out the ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ tune and yet notsee the parts of this country that are already metaphorically ‘burning’ because of the influence of Islam. Cameron might be a less obvious appeaser of Islam than Ed Miliband but he is an appeaser all the same. I might trust Cameron on the matter of the economy but I sure as hell don’t trust him on the issue of Islam. Anybody who can so consistently state that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ has proved to many of us that he knows bugger all about Islam.
It is sad in a way that future generations may only know Cameron for the foolish mistake of saying ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ so much, and his words may well end up being filed alongside Chamberlain’s ‘Peace in our time’ speech and Richard Nixon’s ‘there will be no whitewash at the White House’ statement as being exemplars of the sort of foolish or mistaken words that haunt a statesman’s reputation in later years.
‘Religion of peace, religion of peace, religion of peace…….’ What an ignominious way for a British Prime Minister to be remembered for.
Tzhat is why it is just not worth voting any more. They are all EXACTLY the same.
There is NO party that would “do it any differently.” So why bother?
I think that you will find that the ‘cartel’ parties which in the UK means Labour,Conservative and Lib Dem are exactly the same but there are alternatives. We cannot complain about the mess then go off and vote for the Libs Labs or Cons who have created the mess, people need to vote for some alternative.
WHAT “alternative?”
UKIP will be in for a GREAT “surprise” if they win.
The country is tun by the “civil service” and when THEY refuse to ccoperate, as they WILL, if UKIP win, then you can forget it.
They live in a dream.
The others?
You can offer as many beans with it as you can fit in a bowl, but the basic ingiedient is STILL SPAM.
At one point even the Labour party was a small, relatively insignificant party, alternatives do not just spring fully formed from nothing, they do grow.
I agree with you that the Civil Service is an issue and has been so since World War II when the CS got the taste for micromanaging people’s lives but the culture of the CS can be changed and we can see that in how Labour’s placement in the CS changed it for the worse.
The CS must be changed from the inside.
There is a perfect example within the last century.
The Nazis and Russian Commys replaced all the main CS and Police posts with party members. THEN they went to the vote.
Say what you like about the Nazis and Commys, but you can not default their strategy.
Agreed the CS must be changed but it cannot be changed purely by action from within the CS. We need politicians with the will to make the CS less politicised and wedded to particular ideologies. The CS is not quite as bent and nepotistic as it was prior to the Trevellan reforms, but it has the capacity to get that way.