Thursday, 17 July 2008
Dave Cameron: The Angel of Darkness
This is, indeed, a small but telling sign of the way the political wind is blowing:
As he prepares to head off on a family summer holiday in Cornwall at the end of the month, a relaxed and bubbling Cameron is confident he has made such progress it is now time to liken himself to Lara Croft, the video-game hero. "There is an element to politics that is a bit like Tomb Raider," he told the Guardian yesterday in his Westminster office overlooking the Thames, as he explained his central aim since his election as leader in 2005 - to decontaminate the polluted Tory brand.
"Until you have cleared level one, which I have incidentally never done, you cannot get on to level two. Level one is: are you a reasonable, decent, non-discriminating, sensible, practical person who understands the world as it is lived today, who wants to live in a modern world and who accepts what that means? If so, then you can move on to level two, where you can talk about some of the difficult issues about families and about responsibilities which can lead to trouble."
We all saw what happened when Gordon Brown compared himself with Heathcliff - actually, to be strictly fair, when a gushing interviewer noted that he had been compared with Heathcliff, and Brown agreed - and the contrast with Cameron could not be more telling. The rest of the press have, by and large, ignored this interview, and yet it is, by any measure, an utterly ludicrous comparison; after all, Lara Croft is a pampered aristocrat who grew bored of the wealth and luxury in which she had been born, and instead dedicated her life to the pursuit of adventure and battling fearsome monst- [that's enough Lara Croft comparisons - Ed.]
PS: Anyone want to send me a mockup of Dave as Lara Croft? There's an image you won't shake quickly...
UPDATE: Thanks to the Nameless One for alerting me to the Steve Bell cartoon today, which is not bad - but I'm sure you can do better, people...
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There is a big difference between "is a" and "has a" (or in this case "has two").
DC is a case of "is a", if you follow my drift.
DC is a case of "is a", if you follow my drift.
I can't help feeling it's a bit silly to confuse playing Tomb Raider (which is what DC was talking about) with being a character in Tomb Raider. I expect Steve "Arsebrain' Bell to do that sort of thing, but not Mr E.
Well, not really, Chris. I've played various incarnations of Tomb Raider over the years, and I've always imagined myself as Lara Croft while I was - I mean -
Never mind.
Never mind.
Politics is a bit like Tomb Raider when you think about it: despite increasingly desperate attempts to update the franchise with flashier presentation and ideas that everyone else thought of 10 years ago, underneath it all it's still just the same old pointless, repetitive waste of time and money.
Shoot wild animals, push some (in)conveniently-placed blocks about, climb up a wall. Go into politics, jump through (in)convenient hoops to persuade the public you're a decent guy, piss their money up the wall. Not that different, really.
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Shoot wild animals, push some (in)conveniently-placed blocks about, climb up a wall. Go into politics, jump through (in)convenient hoops to persuade the public you're a decent guy, piss their money up the wall. Not that different, really.
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