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Do cops get braver when power fades from their present masters? Bloody hope so https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ry-sfo-gfg

David Cameron’s activities at the scandal-hit Greensill Capital finance company are a “matter of interest” in a wider investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, the Guardian understands.

The SFO, which investigates and prosecutes fraud, bribery and corruption in the UK, has questioned interview subjects about the UK foreign secretary’s involvement with the now-defunct company, sources claim.

The Guardian understands that Cameron’s activities have been discussed in sensitive interviews with witnesses in the long-running SFO investigation. A spokesperson for Cameron declined to answer specific questions about the investigation and his involvement with Greensill, but said that the foreign secretary had not personally had “any contact” with the SFO.

Entirely plausible that this was why Sunak did what he did.

I seem to recall that he was the one whose USP was to be the caring face of Conservatism and we're all in it together.

Dave’s smooth charm is lost on MAGA Marj

"David Cameron can kiss my ass!"

The response of Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene to the UK foreign secretary's remarks carried no regard and no respect.

She is about as far to the Republican right as it gets, but the withering rebuke finds an echo across the party.
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/kiss-my- ... t-13071776

Looks like he's trying to ingratiate himself with Wills.

They had lost 2 in 12 and weren’t losing that match at the time.

Peak Cameron, standing up for British birds threatened by dastardly foreigners. The ECJ rarely rules in favour of free trade over conservation measures. But I doubt this Brexit Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) has any environmental dimension so it’s probably giving to be though tits for the puffins. Tories can’t even protect its own citizens from dirty water.

UK stands firm in Brexit puffin fish row with EU

Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has told the EU he will not compromise in a post-Brexit row over UK moves to protect puffin birds by banning the fishing of sand eels in the North Sea.

Brussels has launched dispute proceedings against the UK – the first under the Brexit Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) – after French and Danish fishing industries complained about the ban on fishing sand eels, as they catch hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the fish in UK waters each year.

But the Government is standing firm over the ban, introduced to protect the favourite food of puffins, which are endangered and one of the UK’s most loved seabirds.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/camer ... eu-3060146

What's their views on leaders gambling the country's geopolitical stability and economy to play party political games?

Think he misspelled "sharp elbowed, shark eyed mercenary cunts" there.

All that Bullingdon restaurant smashing didn't hurt his professorial prospects.

“Practising politics in an age of disruption” , eh ?

Well, when you consider that Cameron’s entire political career was defined by a massively stupid, vainglorious political gamble - the decision to hold a referendum in 2016 on whether to end the UK’s membership of the EU - that led directly to the disruption of the 21st century that has had massive repercussions to this day, the you do wonder why the gammon-faced cunt is in any way the right bloke to be teaching such a course. For a tidy sum, I’ll warrant. The smug, posturing wankstain that he is.

If students "from eight countries" had decided the elections in 2010 and following, and the Brexit referendum, we might be in a better place. The problem has overwhelmingly been people who want to lead the Conservative Party, plus Reform.

Cameron has never had to work for anything in his life. Stinking rich family, shoe-in to Oxford, non job at Tory HQ, non job at Carlton, safe seat, easy shadow cabinet role, half arsed campaigning and success owed to opponents making mistakes, safe bet referenda, Corbyn, the whole fucking shebang.

Former PM David Cameron accuses Labour of taking 'spite-laden wrecking ball' to Tories's free schools project

Ah God, not these again. There were very few of them, and they didn't operate any differently to academies once they were open. And quite a lot of them were opened in places that didn't need them, and some where the places were needed may not have opened if LAs weren't banned from opening new schools.

CameronTories certainly have a story they can tell on schools, in terms of PISA, and in terms of poorer students' attainment (though disproportionately ones in London). Compared with free schools, this stuff is way more significant than free schools. But they always come back to free schools. I think this shows that they struggle to support public services unless there's a route out for people like them.

The thing I most remember about free schools is Toby Young. I mean, some did form them for the right reasons, but there are also a fair few dubious individuals.