Cameron's reported response to Kirkbride's standing down proves him unfit as an MP let alone as Opposition Leader.

The actual wording, at present only being reported on TV, will be linked here as soon as it is available, it is quite simply astounding!

Update! Here is what Vapid said, as reported in the Telegraph, more than living up to that nickname:

Mr Cameron replied:

"Thank you for being so frank and candid about your decision to stand down at the coming election. I know this was a very hard decision for you to take, but I completely understand why you have decided to do so.

"You have been under enormous pressure in the last two weeks. Sometimes the focus of the public spotlight can be unbearably intense, as you described graphically to me on the phone this morning. I understand that the pressure has now become more than you can bear.

"You have struggled hard to balance your roles of mother and Member of Parliament, and spoken eloquently of how difficult it is to combine the two. As you said to me this morning, your first instinct must now be to protect the wellbeing of your family - especially of your son."

The BBC earlier reported that he went much further than this, I will try to obtain a more complete version, or possibly he has back-tracked.

Update 2 Here from the Guardian is the full text of Cameron's reply:

Thank you for being so frank and candid about your decision to stand down at the coming election. I know this was a very hard decision for you to take, but I completely understand why you have decided to do so.

You have been under enormous pressure in the last two weeks. Sometimes the focus of the public spotlight can be unbearably intense, as you described graphically to me on the phone this morning. I understand that the pressure has now become more than you can bear.

You have struggled hard to balance your roles of mother and Member of Parliament, and spoken eloquently of how difficult it is to combine the two. As you said to me this morning, your first instinct must now be to protect the wellbeing of your family - especially of your son.

In terms of your own case, you have given full answers to the questions that have been put to you, and you have given a good account of yourself.

You step down in the knowledge that you have been an incredibly hardworking and committed Member of Parliament, and that your achievements cannot be taken away from you. You have always fought for the people of Bromsgrove with great spirit, and I know that very many of them are extremely grateful for the work you have done for them for the last 12 years.

Don't let this cast a shadow over your achievements. You should be extremely proud of what you have done - including as shadow culture secretary, and on the select committee for business and enterprise. Since your student days you've been a valiant fighter for the Conservative party. Though today must seem a very dark day, I know that you have so much to offer in the future.

The public are rightly angry at what has happened over MPs' expenses. If we are to rebuild trust in politics, it is essential that there is thorough and urgent reform. But it is also extremely important that part of that reform should include better ways of enabling women to combine the roles of politician and mother.

I hope that you and Andrew will, in the coming months, be able to start the process of rebuilding your lives.

What planet is Cameron living upon? Fifty thousand pounds of tax payers money to build a bedroom for her brother to live in rent free with all the other abuses of taxpayer funds by this miserable couple! Unbelievable!! To then say this:

Don't let this cast a shadow over your achievements. You should be extremely proud of what you have done

Cameron's stance on Kirkbride surely debases women

As I understand David Cameron's stance on Maggot MP Andrew MacKay and his Maggot MP wife, who calls herself Julie Kirkbride, she is in the clear over the "no-first home situation" that involved them both, purely because she took the word of her husband on the matter.

Pushing women as he does on to the Conservative Candidate list one must wonder if constituency selection procedures should perhaps in future give more consideration to the stature of married female candidate's husbands than to the candidates themselves if they are apparently incapable of handling their own expenses.

Are female Tory MP so shallow and incapable that they are to be considered unable to form their own value judgements on their own expense claims - says little for their ability to consider legislation!

An extraordinary set back for the women's movement I would have thought.

A pledge rendered meaningless by a cunning full stop.

I listened to Cameron's speech on the re-distribution of power and as predicted it was clever but crap.

How will the conspiratorial Conservatives disguise the fact that they will do nothing about our almost complete loss of sovereignty (certainly of self-governance) to the EU, I wondered, when it came to reporting the oh so heavily hedged commitments in print?

Not long to wait as it turned out, for here already from the web site of the party itself, linked here, comes this devious ruse:

He warned that people feel “increasingly powerless” and “at the mercy of powerful elites that preside over them” – and outlined plans for a “massive, sweeping, radical redistribution of power”:

“From the state to citizens; from the government to parliament; from Whitehall to communities. From Brussels to Britain; from judges to the people; from bureaucracy to democracy.”

Notice the full stop? And this in a speech from a party pledging openness and pledging transparency. I suspect that all this is to divert attention from the fact that it is today the sixth anniversary of the unveiling of the Constitutional Treaty, widely ignored everywhere else but to be covered in detail on Ironies Too.

Missed the full stop and its implication let me illustrate:

“From the state to citizens; from the government to parliament; from Whitehall to communities. From Brussels to Britain; from judges to the people; from bureaucracy to democracy.”

Why not a continuation of the two earlier semi colons? We all know why! Because the lying toads are conning us again!

The second sentence of the above quotation has no meaning whatsoever in English as it has been punctuated!

If they really planned to do anything about the EU why is it not in their manifesto for 4th June, down-loadable in all its complete emptiness, also from their website. (Hint don't bother!).

What a shameless bunch they have become, first can't efficiently fiddle their exes, second can't efficiently disguise an obvious untruth.

CAMERON! You are all crooks for drawing full pay for a quarter of a job!

All the proposals rolled out by Cameron for reforming Parliament today are rubbish!

All the expense fiddles shade into insignificance when every MP draws full pay and a fat pension for doing only a quarter of a job. The rest has been given away to the EU. Nothing has been given in return.

Anybody looking around can see that their country is now controlled by German, French and Scottish interests! All this and without the clearly promised Referendum on the new Constitutional arrangements now planned via the Lisbon Treaty.

These obvious realities render all who continue to sit in Parliament to be perceived as crooked shysters, for it was the opposition's job to hold the Government to their own manifesto promise, by extreme pressure on Labour MPs who should have been warned of the inevitable consequences now beinning.

The proposals of Cameron on reform of Parliament are pure garbage, for Parliament has been neutered and sold off by our two main political parties, cheered on by the Liberal/Democrats and out negotiated at every step by our continental neighbours.

I am blogging on Ironies Too, over the next day or two, on the treachery carried out over the referendum, as it is now the sixth anniversary of my initial reactions on Ironies to the proposed EU constitution. Six years of continuing betrayal - how time flies!

David Cameron stated yesterday "... if you share our values come and be a Conservative candidate.”

What values might they be? I wondered as Cameron uttered this latest glib gimmick on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning.

David Cameron, or just plain vapid as this blog likes to occasionally refer to him, has no obvious values whatsoever. He has ambition, the burning desire to be Prime Minister which might be considered commendable by some, particularly as he so vividly and frequently gives evidence of the fact that he lacks any single character attribute for such a job! But values? No way, I thought so I have sought guidance from the Party's web site, linked here.

Sure enough, all kinds of policies and statements about what will be accomplished, talk of war rooms etc., but not a single word about this alien concept for the Cameroon's which must have sounded so alluring in preparing for the TV Studio - VALUES! At one point I found a link stating "Where we stand" but when it is clicked all we get is "Void" the item being merely a heading for all kinds of specific nonsense with narry a value, let alone a principle, in sight.

If you visit the "People" page on the web site, just before the smiling faces of Cameron's motley crew appear you are greeted with the message "Wide Branding Image" very apt..... perhaps Dave should have said to Marr "....if you share our wide branding image come and be a Conservative candidate."

In fact if one searched for an antonym to what Cameron stands for, VALUES would be way up there with the front runners.

Were I not already dissuaded from considering throwing my hat into the ring for a Conservative candidature by the ghastly thought that one would need to be a "team player" with the dross with which Cameron has surrounded himself, then the misuse of this word and the sheer effrontery of this man's ignorance of what it means, would certainly deter me.

Husky photo shoot with Values emblazoned on the sleigh anyone?

James Gray shames the Conservative Party

The above is the headline for a discussion yesterday on Conservative Home Blog after the named Tory MP has been caught claiming for wreaths he laid on Remembrance Sunday.

The topic has gathered 105 comments so far, but none seem to quite gather the real tragedy, that this action does not shame Cameron's Conservative Party one jot! In fact it is exactly what this blog could well have predicted!

Shame? Can any imagine Cameroon's even understand the connotations of the word?

Czech President Klaus can now make Cameron's Referendum Con Valuable

Czech President Klaus can now make Cameron's Referendum Con Valuable

As the Czech Parliament has now approved the Lisbon Treaty the promise by President Klaus to delay signature until the last moment now becomes even more significant.

Even if the Irish vote Yes to Lisbon in a second referendum this autumn the fact that Cameron yesterday pledged to hold a British Referendum on the Treaty if it had yet to be ratified upon a Tory election victory gives President Klaus (and indeed the Polish President) every justification to withhold his signature from the Constitutional Treaty that neuters 27 Parliaments across the EU.

This has also been posted to Ironies Too.