The Republican Party and the British Conservatives have traditionally been close allies. Their common belief in free markets united them as kindred spirits. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were very close and collaborated on many issues. But times have changed. While the Republican Party has gone in a more nanny state direction, it pales in comparison to the British Tories. David Cameron is an admirer of Saul Alinsky and calls himself a Progressive. While visiting the US he praised Obama and ignored his party’s traditional Republican allies.
What David Cameron described as his “guys night out” watching basketball with President Barack Obama in the swing state of Ohio was cheesy and embarrassing enough. But has there ever been a speech given by a British prime minister that was quite as cringeworthy as Cameron’s “toast” to Obama at last night’s State Dinner?
Watch the video. Cameron starts speaking at the 8:20 point and almost immediately hails Obama’s “strong and beautiful words”. It’s downhill from there.
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He takes a cheap shot at Richard Nixon – the easiest possible target in front of a gathering of Obamaphiles – and his own Tory predecessor Ted Heath. He makes corny jokes about cricket and Watergate (“call in the plumbers” – Geddit?) and then lauds Obama’s “strength, moral authority and wisdom”. No mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher.
Then comes what must surely be one of the most obsequious things Obama – who is well used to adulation – has ever heard. Obama, says Cameron “has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world”.
Its a sad day when the Labor party is more Conservative than the Tories. Clearly this is not the Party of Margaret Thatcher. Despite the insults Obama has done to the UK, Cameron praises him. Will the real British Conservatives please stand up!
Tags: British Conservatives, David Cameron, Tories
