It seems David Cameron has stepped into a bit of a stooshie regarding Twitter, odd given that his Chief Press Officer joined the site a matter of weeks ago. A move that was surely discussed with Tory HQ.Anyway, here's the news on the subject:
David Cameron, the leader of the UK's opposition Conservative Party, has laid into social microblogging service Twitter in a radio interview, labeling it useless. While chatting to Absolute Radio's Christian O'Connell, Cameron was asked why he wasn't on Twitter himself. He replied: "It's too instantaneous... Too many twits make a twat".
When asked about the mood of the nation, he added "The public are pissed off.. Oh, I can't say that, can I?".
"pissed off"? "twat"!? Who are you and what have you done with the real David Cameron? That nice posh guy that will get us as close to the fantasy of Hugh Grant as Prime Minister as possible (or is just me who holds that secret yearning).
I'm still not entirely proud of my tweeting ways but for the future Prime Minister to slag off, what, a million, two million British people in a matter of moments goes some way in proving that the man's political instincts are not fully fledged.
As for the dubious language, I would ask David Cameron if he kisses his mother with that mouth but given this quote I'm not sure it's a great idea:
"If my mother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle."
It's all a bit strange or perhaps, just perhaps, David Cameron is actually a little bit dimly naive deep down?
More scrutiny of the man required I reckon.
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I think that he's showing the clumsiness of the tweet/tweeter/twit/twitterer lexicon. He probably meant that too many tweets by an individual could reveal that they themself are a fool. Or that they had too much spare time on their hands if they could microblog all day. Unlikely to have intentionally offended so many voters. But I'm not his Press Office, so should be interesting to see if he can weasel out of it...
I'm quite impressed that he feels confident enough to use a vulgar term for "vagina" on the radio. Can't see Gordon doing it.
P.S. Doesn't Hugh Grant swear quite a lot? Most of his films could've had the pitch "posh guy says fuck".
I don't know Colin, a good fuck from David Cameron could do the nation a lot of good, verbally speaking of course. And the Tory leader and Hugh Grant already have masturbation denials to their name (Jonathon Ross and Notting Hill respectively) so the similarities are stacking up. If I was serving DC his coffee and looked like Martine McCutcheon come May 2010, I'd be worried.
Lets be clear about this.
As a tweeter, are you denying that you're a twat?
Sorry, what is the point of twitter, again? Tim Ferriss, who has invested in Twitter has said, multiple times, that he thinks Twitter is pointless.
Non story
meh, at least he's saying what he thinks.
This will be veiwed as him being "no nonsense" and "direct".
Cameron knows a Twat when he sees one every Wednesday lunchtime.
'Call me Dave' Cameron tries too hard to be a dude, and it comes across as insincere. He is like Brown in that way, he too tries to get down with the common folks and makes an ass of himself.
Like Brown he would be better off just being himself, i.e. a fairly posh old Etonian. The public don't find that objectionable (apart from the ones who would never vote Tory anyway) and if he acts like himself he will be fine. I mean old Gordon is pretty much his Guarantor for getting into Downing Street, Cameron will easily make Number 19.
yep, non-story. Agreed.
Still easy meat for a blog post though and something to have some fun with. Any excuse to get that bike quote back up again!
Incidentally, I actually find "meh" more offensive than "twat". No offence Henry.
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