Justin Fisher from Brunel University has posted on the British Politics Group a quite provocative analysis of David Cameron suggesting that he's just not very good at being prime Minister. Given that he always said he was sure he'd be an excellent PM, this is worth considering.
He argues that Cameron fails to recognise the seriousness of issues until too late or mishandles them once he addresses them.
i) he was slow to react to the summer riots in our cities.
ii) ditto with phone hacking allowing Ed Miliband to grab some good publicity by condemning Murdoch.
iii) Liam Fox was allowed to twist in the wind too long before he was sacked- rather as brown dithered over Peter Hain when he should have acted. Blair, by comparison acted promptly and relatively ruthlessly, even sacking his best friend Mandelson
iv)Over the euro crisis he needlessly angered EU partners by lecturing them on how they should act. And when he needed support, it wasn't there.
Worth a read http://www.britishpoliticsgroup.org/index.html
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I think it was Alastair Campbell who said Cameron was a tactics over strategy man, looking for short terms gain in everything which was one of the reasons he didn't get a majority in the General Election, last week seems to bare this theory out, did our PM have a plan for being 26 - 1, i doubt it.
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