David Cameron's Tory party conference speech is unraveling fast - with many false facts and unfair accusations, like his unfounded attack on Ed Balls.
Following our line-by-line fisking of the prime minister’s speech yesterday, more of David Cameron’s claims have come under scrutiny – with last night’s Newsnight exposing the hollowness of his attack on Ed Balls over “winners” and “aspiration”.
Mr Cameron said of Mr Balls:
“…he said one of the dangers of our schools policy was that it would create winners. Winners! I mean we can’t possibly have winners. I mean the danger that your child might go to a school and turn out to be a winner. Anti-aspiration, anti-success, anti-parents who just want the best for their children…”
Yet, as Michael Crick revealed, the former schools secretary had actually said:
“The danger is that there will be winners in this policy, but it is dishonest not to say that there will be losers as well.“
Watch it:
Additionally, Channel 4 News’s Cathy Newman has fact-checked Mr Cameron’s speech, finding fault with his statements on academies, university places, the NHS, parallels with Greece and crime – the latter particularly egregious since, as Left Foot Forward has repeatedly reported, crime actually fell 43 per cent during Labour’s time in power.
25 Responses to “Cameron’s speech unraveling fast”
Lady J
From the day Cameron jumped the red lights on his bike and the media gave him a pass, I knew we would end up with a prime minister who felt that he was a posh boy and therefore not accountable to anyone.
If the media is not careful with the manner in which they fail to scrutinize Cameron, allowing him to willfully, say, do and take whatever actions he pleases without any accoutability, he may progress from doing and sayig whatever he likes as a Uni student without accoutability to a Prime Miister doing and saying whatever he likes without accoutability and we all know how that story ends.
The media must wake up to this guy.
Claire French
More misuse of truth by David Cameron, reported by @bbcnewsnight and @leftfootfwd http://bit.ly/cr5nQ4
John Nor
RT @clairee_french: More misuse of truth by David Cameron, reported by @bbcnewsnight and @leftfootfwd http://bit.ly/cr5nQ4
fljf
RT @clairee_french: More misuse of truth by David Cameron, reported by @bbcnewsnight and @leftfootfwd http://bit.ly/cr5nQ4
Dr Shibley Rahman
V effective 'fisking' from @shamikdas from @leftfootfwd in exposing @Conservatives lies http://bit.ly/ajaPMk < i salute u!