David Cameron’s anti-German “joke” is racist?

Some would definitely say it is. I do not think he’s a racist, but if he is playing the racist card he’s played it well. It’s a finesse play. He can’t use the “N” word or the “P” word but he can parody the old Basil Fawlty routine, but without the self deprecating irony that makes that scene in Fawlty Towers so funny, and so British. Back in the fifties the Tories had a slogan : “If you want a “N” word for a neighbour vote Liberal or Labour”. Unbelievable but true I’m afraid.

David Cameron may have given himself away as a classic public school boy chump: a bit dim, cheated his way through Eton on dad’s money, got a job through dad’s friends, a bit boorish and loud, can’t hold his liqour, and doesn’t like anything or anyone that’s not English, or his understanding of what English is anyway. Failed in the city so thought he’d better dodge into the Tory party and cheat his way to the top: back stabbing, dishing out favours, playing on his chumpish and trendy vicar image.

The Trendy Vicar, more tea?

But I think it’s more subtle than that. He’s worried about UKIP and the BNP splitting the Tory vote and letting the Liberals and Labour in by the back door. So he’s played the racist and anti-European card in one hand. Take the piss out of the Germans and say they will scrap ID cards. But all the while he knows this is Tory policy too. He’s already said he’s going to scrap ID cards so we know he’s dead keen on it. He’ll blame Labour for signing “unbreakable contracts” in much the same way Tony Blair kept to Tory spending plans in his time. We all kinow Tories are spankers and they like control more than Labour. But they won’t have a referendum on Europe, even though they say they’ll have one. They like Europe, even though they say it’s crap.

They lie. But then so do Labour. We’d probably find UKIP, the BNP and The Liberals lie as well if they ever get a chance to prove it. So who to vote for in England? the Scottish Nationalists of course. They need to put candidates in every constituency and have ridiculous policies for the English, like: a referendum on Europe, banning the bomb, legalising all drugs, stopping all immigration except from within the British Isles. Split all the votes in other words, it would certainly help Scotland if England/Britain had a hung House of Commons.

 Be a bit of a wacky wheeze as The Chump might say.

Tags: David Cameron, Political Comment, Public School Boys, The Chump