Perhaps Cameron is losing grip on reality. Perhaps he has fallen into his own mirage. Yesterday he proclaimed, without blushing, voters who are old, who are poor, can best be looked after by a Conservative Government.
A truly staggering claim, like the fox declaring he was best at protecting the chicken coup. Like everything else in the Cameron dominated Tory campaign, it is a either a gimmick or an obvious tactic. What was he thinking here? Electoral hypnosis?
In some ways it was an attempt to match the highly memorable words of Neil Kinnock (left) when he saw Labour’s imminent defeat in 1983. “I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.”
Of course he was warning about the instincts of a Conservative Government who cut taxes on upper incomes and doubled VAT, abolished eye tests and NHS dentists, saw youth unemployment reach 90 percent in places and the creation of a new underclass.
The current crop of Cons are still unashamedly cutting inheritance tax for those with estates of over £2m and handing out tax breaks which exclude all single parents.
Of course, Blair in 1997 went out to woo Mail readers and others with a very conservative outlook. His message was more reassurance then outrageous misrepresentation.
Cameron may offer a different brand of Conservatism but it is fundamentally not the case their first concern is helping the poor. For anyone living in the decimated community of an old pit village, the precise reason they are poor is thanks to the Conservatives.
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