Cameron says he is ‘no heir to Blair’
David Cameron has once again used the ID cards issue to differentiate himself from Tony Blair. Ben Russell writes in the Independent:
The Tory leader said he “winced” at comparisons with the Prime Minister but insisted that the “whole approach” of his politics was different. In an interview with the BBC, Mr Cameron insisted that the Conservatives were making progress across the country.
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He expressed admiration for Mr Blair’s electoral record but insisted that there was clear water between Labour and the Conservatives. He said: “I admire the fact he won three elections in a row. But our whole approach to politics is different, because in the end politics is either trusting big government – that’s Blair – or actually trusting people and sharing responsibility with them, and trying to create a more responsible society. That’s me.
“To me it’s an enormous difference: ID cards: he wants them, I don’t like them; regional government: I can’t hear it, he wants to introduce it; the health service and public services: he wants top-down targets and government control, I want to set our professionals free.”
April 18th, 2007 at 10:21
Re: David Cameron BBC Sunday interview.
Sounds like a very good reason not to vote for labour in any forthcoming local or national elections. If you want to retain any degree of privacy or liberty and get big government off our backs then vote them out of power while we still have the ability to do so.