Love him or loathe him, David Cameron resigned as an MP yesterday. He actually resigned as Prime Minister back in June, having lost the EU Referendum (having also said he wouldn’t quit), but he stayed on as an MP. He also funnily enough said he wouldn’t quit as an MP. But then politician talks bollocks isn’t exactly news.
Anyway, Cameron has been one of my favourite ones because of the songs that he’s tried to pretend he liked and then been found out and made to look like a complete tit.
Anyway, Cameron has been one of my favourite ones because of the songs that he’s tried to pretend he liked and then been found out and made to look like a complete tit.
The Jam’s Eton Rifles for instance, he seemed to imply that he used to listen to while literally at Eton in the Cadet Corps. Which, let’s be honest, if you’ve ever even heard the song, you’d know that story was at the extreme end of highly unlikely. Usually you can tell from someone’s demeanour what music they like and Cameron is almost definitely not a Jam fan. Apart from his background, which I won’t hold against him here, he just isn’t angry enough, he just doesn’t know passion. His entire personality is “meh”.
He also tried to claim he was a big fan of the Smiths, which again obviously set Mr J. Marr off like a katherine wheel. And you can pretty much draw the same conclusions. Cameron just is not an emotional guy in that way. Coldplay or Snow Patrol maybe. But not the Smiths.
He also tried to claim he was a big fan of the Smiths, which again obviously set Mr J. Marr off like a katherine wheel. And you can pretty much draw the same conclusions. Cameron just is not an emotional guy in that way. Coldplay or Snow Patrol maybe. But not the Smiths.
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Then of course there was Gordon Brown pretending he liked the Arctic Monkeys, then being unable to name a single song. And Tony Blair being in a band before entering politics (although this is definitely believable - the dazzling frontman with no plan whatsoever - sound familiar?).
So I guess politicians and music are basically a foregone conclusion; if Cam had got up there and started singing and playing air guitar to the Jam, perhaps it would have been convincing, but he’d still look like a tit.
But the fact is, these things are almost always cooked up by some press officer in the car on the way to the conference to generate a bit of “edge”, fully aware that half the journalists and audience probably have no idea who the band is either so they’ll get away with it. Until someone on twitter points it out.
Anyway, he’s gone now so we don’t need to worry too much. Until Theresa May suddenly declares herself a massive Specials fan or something.
So I guess politicians and music are basically a foregone conclusion; if Cam had got up there and started singing and playing air guitar to the Jam, perhaps it would have been convincing, but he’d still look like a tit.
But the fact is, these things are almost always cooked up by some press officer in the car on the way to the conference to generate a bit of “edge”, fully aware that half the journalists and audience probably have no idea who the band is either so they’ll get away with it. Until someone on twitter points it out.
Anyway, he’s gone now so we don’t need to worry too much. Until Theresa May suddenly declares herself a massive Specials fan or something.
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