Ok...first day at work and you are already up against the Prime Minister at Parliament. What should I ask to leave a good impression? Where should I start the attack in order to win the next elections? These questions must be circling in Mr David Cameron's mind when he got elected yesterday as the next Conservative leader. Winning by a 2-1 margin over David Davis, he definitely had a rubber stamp from the party members to lead the party to victory in the next election.A tough road lies in front of him. Already, 5 leaders have bitten the dust since 1997 (Major, Hague, Duncan-Smith, Howard and finally Cameron), so will there be any changes in luck due to the change of leadership? Cameron will inject new perspectives and ideas into the ageing old guards who are still around but his influences can only be effective when his team can fully take office to challenge the current Labour Cabinet. So that's leave the question of who will be in the shadow cabinet. I welcome the return of William Hague as shadow foreign secretary but the team would probably be relatively inexperienced. We should know more within the next few days.
Just watched Prime Minister's Questions and I would give Mr Cameron a 6/10 for his first sparring with Mr Blair. He appeared nervous and I felt that he was thinking of jokes to quote in order to invigorate the House. His 4 questions were spent on education which I felt were appropriate but maybe the questions were framed wrongly to look like the Tories support every Labour education policies. I commend Mr Cameron for spending his last 2 questions on climate change which is the main concern for many in the world. Perhaps for next week Mr Cameron would have more confidence and maybe even jabbed about the Home Office Bill.
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I think Cameron's first outing went quite well. I watched it online at the BBC site. Personally, he gets a 7/10 from me. While agreeing with the Labour Party too often would cause a revolt in his own ranks, some commentators said that he was being quite shrewd by doing so on certain issues, and that he is causing a split within the ranks of Labour simply by agreeing with Blair so publicly.
If Blair is made to seem like an ally of the Tories, then maybe Blair will be seen as "wrong" (or "too Tory") for Labour - or that's what some think Cameron is trying to put into the opposition's heads. It's all a mind game, they say.
Or perhaps, he genuinely agrees with some of Blair's agenda, and wants to stop "playing politics" with some issues, like education reform.
I sure wish that would happen here in the U.S.! We're trying to catch up, it seems, to folks like you in South Asia who apparently know how to educate children properly.
Well Cameron is doing pretty well now on the PR front. Blair has been doing well over the holiday period as well with his video cast now to show his human side of him.
Thanks for your complement on our educational system. :-)
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