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March 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Former party leader challenger Davis warns Cameron to ‘get a grip’ on Radio 4
- ‘It’s not an insuperable problem yet, but it’s one they’ve got to solve – they think we’re toffs’
- Follows fuel shortage panic and anger from pasty fans over VAT
By
Tim Shipman
11:10 EST, 29 March 2012
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02:11 EST, 30 March 2012
David Davis MP: ‘They think we are better off, they think we are toffs’
David Cameron and his Cabinet are seen as well-fed toffs living in a different world, David Davis warned last night.
In a devastating analysis, the former Tory leadership contender said the Prime Minister needed to ‘get a grip’ in order to convince voters he shared their fears and aspirations.
Mr Davis said appearing out of touch could damage the Prime Minister’s prospects, just as sleaze had undermined John Major’s premiership.
Although the intervention has angered Tory high command, senior officials admit Mr Cameron is aware of the dangers and will push working-class ministers into the political frontline over the coming weeks.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Davis warned that Budget decisions to cut the top rate of tax while imposing a ‘granny tax’ and a ‘pasty tax’ have created a new class divide and left poor and middle income earners feeling like they have been ‘pushed off the escalator’.
He also warned that the decision to cut child benefit had convinced voters that Old Etonian Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne ‘don’t know how we feel and work, what our lives are like’.
Man of the people? Osbourne may munch a pastry – but can David Cameron keep a grip on his party’s image?
Mr Davis, who grew up in a council flat,
said: ‘It’s an unfair allegation, but it’s a powerful one, and it works
against us. They think we’re toffs.
‘The truth is, they look at the front bench, they see them all very well
dressed, well turned out, well fed, and perhaps feel that they’re in a
different world to them.
Sleaze undermined John Major – could ‘being a toff’ undo Cameron?
The “we’re all in this together” phrase is very
important – but at the moment it’s not working.
‘Governments always have to watch this, that they don’t get stuck with
an impression that plays against them. In John Major’s day it was
sleaze.
Today this may be its equivalent. If it sticks it makes almost
everything you do impossible to make work.’
A senior government source indicated that Tories with more humble
backgrounds would now put the case to voters that the Tories are on
their side.
Foreign Secretary William Hague is expected to be asked to undertake
more media appearances, along with Communities Secretary Eric Pickles
and party chairman Baroness Warsi.
‘Take a step back and look at people like William Hague, Eric Pickles,
Patrick McLoughlin (chief whip) and Sayeeda Warsi,’ the source said.
‘People don’t care about the Prime Minister’s background. What they care about is that he is competent and he has got a grip.’
But Tory MP Mark Pritchard, secretary of the backbench 1922 Committee,
warned the best option was a ministerial reshuffle to get ‘greater
representation of people from all sorts of backgrounds’ on the front
bench.’
John Redwood: Happy to represent the pasty eaters
He said: ‘Those people that perhaps have struggled at some point in
their life to pay the electric bill or have perhaps arrived in school in
a Morris Minor rather than a Jaguar are more likely to have empathy
with those people who are currently struggling.’
Doubts were also expressed about George Osborne’s chancellorship and his
prospects of succeeding Mr Cameron. ‘George is no longer fit to be
prime minister,’ one junior minister told the Mail.
Mr Cameron faced fresh embarrassment over the ‘pasty tax’ last night after his main justification for the raid collapsed.
He has claimed it was simply ironing out a loophole that has existed since Nigel Lawson imposed VAT on hot fast food in 1984.
But Labour last night released a letter written by Lord Lawson from that year showing he had never intended pasties to be hit.
The letter said: ‘It does not apply to food and drink which has cooled
to room temperature by the time it is sold, or to things like pies and
pastries which are sold warm because they happen to be freshly baked.
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H ow is this great country being led, by these two pygamies,people have very short memories of the tory party,thet control the econmy by keeping large numbers on the dole.
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Absolutely right, David Davies. I have been a lifelong Tory voter but how could I vote for this lot again? They are so out of touch it is frightening. They have absolutely no concept of the ordinary everyday life of a working person. They sit in clubs and warm offices, fawned over by doting secretaries and assistants, personal drivers, nannies, housekeepers, houses all over the place, expenses and subsidies, secure bullet proof pensions to look forward to. Cushioned all their lives, most of them, with wealth and background. Never lived in the real world. No concept of it, nor do they ever want to have – it would prick their protective bubbles. David Davies has spoken for me. He may well be making a power grab, but let’s have some action to start to put things right.
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David Davies for president ! Long live El Presidente !
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More hype
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All the hooray henries in the cabinet could not hold down a REAL job, so what they are going to do when we boot them out, heaven only knows. Live off their unearned incomes, I suppose. It should be a law that nobody can stand for parliament until they have held down a “proper job” for at least ten years.By proper job, I mean a job which has nothing to do with politics at all.
The worm that is the electorate is on the turn now though, one has only to check the e-petition about the freezing of pensioners allowances (45,000 votes in a few days) to see that we have just had enough of being treated with contempt, and we will show them just what we think of them at the next election. It will be as well for them at that time that they have a private income, when they will no longer be able to rob us blind with their “legitimate” expenses.
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Please people lets have a revolution, let them eat cake and off with their heads are as valid today as it was in the French Revolution.
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David Cameron, Tony Blair, two puppets, one puppetmaster.
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Cameron isn’t fit for purpose.
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Warsi is unelected and has no right representing anybody…..
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The best way to iron out loopholes is to remove VAT from hot food altogether.
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