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David, David, David. Look, I don't know how to tell you this, but I think you might be a tiny bit out of touch with the plebs. I mean the electorate, sorry. But the thing is this: joining in on The Twitter to keep up with what the common people are thinking wasn't your best plan. Especially after this comment in 2009:
"I think that politicians do have to think about what we say, and the trouble with Twitter is, too many Tweets might make a twat."
I know, you thought you'd backtrack on that with a little quip (I promise there won't be "too many Tweets...") And I imagine you thought you'd maybe follow the usual suspects, like @stephenfry and @barackobama
and maybe @thetorygraph and then you'd pop up once in a while and tell the world what you were having for breakfast, and send us an instagram or two of your cat in amusing positions.
Except your cat doesn't think much of your plan:
And people (like fellow Huffington Post UK writer Sian S. Rathore) will ask awkward questions:
Because the trouble with Twitter is it's full of real, opinionated people. The ones you're shafting on a daily basis. And the #askdave hashtag on there is full of everything that's good about this country. not that you'll read it, of course. Which is a shame.
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Cameron may be a rich, well educated Etonian - so what - and he is a Tory -, all true, but he is not like the Duck House brigade. Policies are what I want to hear about, not that Miliband's house is worth £2.3m nor how much the Ball's income was under Brown - not even how much Brown and Blair earn or which private school Harriet Harman went to etc etc. It is all about POLICY and how the hell this country can live within its stretched means.
Please, give us serious contributions not envy trivia.
So spare a thought for unemployed people who cannot get a job because businesses are having to pay for state sector greed and "buying Union votes policies".
Tuiton fees were introduced first by Labour, Gordon Browns gift to the young. He also made record cuts in university funding before the last election, the BBC refuses to report it.
If Labour had not wasted 12 years knighting bankers, starting wars and hiding healthy people on benefits because "they thought they would be more likley to vote for them"...then the UK would be like Germany, doing fine.
The hard left need to accept their greed and evil destroyed the UK and hurt the poor.