David Cameron's performance in Thursday's leaders' debate continued to unravel this weekend.
David Cameron’s performance in Thursday’s leaders’ debate continued to unravel this weekend. His claims that Humberside Police had “five different police cars and they were just about to buy a £73,000 Lexus” were disputed by the police, who pointed out just how misleading and factually inaccurate he was. The Met also challenged Cameron’s jibes about “form-fillers” as misleading and out of context.
He has also been called out in a new video which highlights more differences between what he says on camera, and what he does off it: fine words on care for the elderly – but he walked away from cross party talks on care; on policing – but he won’t protect the police from cuts; and on education – yet schools will also not be protected from cuts.
Watch it:
On Friday, Left Foot Forward debunked Cameron’s misleading use of cancer stats, and his bracketing of China with Iran as potential nuclear threats to this country.
Also this weekend, his farcical anecdote about meeting a “40-year-old black man” who had served in the Navy “for 30 years” fell apart, the Plymouth Herald revealing the gentleman in question is 51 years old. He told the paper that:
“Britain needs immigrants.”
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15 Responses to “More Cameron claims fall flat”
Tim Horton
I note the Next Left blog you link to about the Lexus also points out that Cameron has (had?) a taxpayer-funded Lexus as his leader-of-the-opposition car. If true, that is shocking hypocrisy. He’s criticising the police having one to catch criminals as ‘waste’. Meanwhile he has one to carry his shoes around behind his bicycle.
In fact, can someone check out if the car behind the bike back in 2006 was a taxpayer-funded Lexus? I’m sure it’s in the public interest…
Fiale
I think I will stop reading this site now. I have been reading Think Progress for a long time and enjoy it articles. Whilst they are progressive they are not afraid to call out politicians from any side, they maybe partisan but not blatantly. With Karl Rove, Sarah Palin and Bachmans lieing as a matter of course they have a wealth of extremes to report on. Yet they still try to remain unbias.
You guys however may as well just change this site to a full blown Labour website – I have no love for Cameron (been a Liberal supporter most of my life) but your last weeks have been nothing but attacks on him and the Conservatives. You need to change the site description as it reads
“We are a non-partisan blog”
Sorry but do you read your own site ?
Mr. Sensible
Tim I cannot answer for Mr straw, but to be fare, I’m not sure criticizing Cameron is that hard at the moment.
But I don’t think it fare to suggest that this is just a Labour blog; a few weeks ago, I believe a Liberal Democrat spokesman did an article on their proposed tax reforms.
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Gail Cartmail
RT @leftfootfwd: More Cameron claims fall flat http://bit.ly/bYJg9f More from Left Foot Forward who get my vote for the best election blog.