"We were on a break" The real David Cameron

Its been an interesting couple of weeks in politics. In lieu of there being much to discuss, the debate around the referendum has become increasingly petulent. In the context of that debate we now have what might be described as a temporary break in the Clegg/Cameron relationship, not unlike that other break that Ross and Rachel once had in Friends. Whilst Clegg remains relatively faithful to the spirit of the coalition David has rushed off to indulge in an orgy of conservatism with his old chums.

In what has been a carefully choreagraphed and planned campaign, they began with the onslaught against immigrants. As we all know for the Conservative Party, immigrants are the cause of a great many of our woes. They bring crime, forced and sham marriages, abuse of the benefit system, place a burden on schools and hospitals, and take jobs from hard working Britains. Well some hard working Britains because David introduced a new notion towards the end of his speech:

The real issue is this: migrants are filling gaps in the labour market left wide open by a welfare system that for years has paid British people not to work.
That's where the blame lies - at the door of our woeful welfare system, and the last government who comprehensively failed to reform it.
So immigration and welfare reform are two sides of the same coin.
Put simply, we will never control immigration properly unless we tackle welfare dependency.

In a single paragraph that 'not quite so nice David Cameron' had brought together two of the Conservative Party's favourite targets; the undeserving poor and immigrants; all done in what he argued was an attempt  to starve extremist parties of the oxygen of public anxiety. In actual fact what he was seeking to do was to appropriate the language and political discourse of the right and unsurprisingly the BNP were outraged at the Prime Minister's foray into their ideological territory. But, 'not quite so nice David's' break, with the supposedly moderating influence of Nick Clegg didn't stop with immigrants and the economically inactive, and yesterday another target of his approbrium got the other barrel.

Alcoholics, drug addicts and people who are obese are apparently to lose their benefits and are to be encouraged (forced) back into the job market. Supporting people who have to deal with these difficulties is  is fine, encouraging them to work is fine, but as the experience of the Labour government illustrated, getting people off drugs and drink just isn't that easy. So what we will be faced with, is a situation where increasing numbers of people are thrown off benefits because they don't conform to the Conservative ideal.

Every country will have a proportion of their citizens who are either economically inactive or who do not appear to contribute to the good of the nation; some will be drug addicts or alcoholics, some will be artists whose pictures will one day sell for millions of pounds; others will be members of a government who will lose their seats at the next election, but all of them have the right to our support when times are hard.
In choosing to target the socially vulnerable in the way that they have done over the last couple of weeks, we have gained an insight into the real David Cameron and the heart and soul of conservative Britain. And Nick just in case you still havn't realised, David has been cheating on you with Eric Pickles and George Osborne and if he tells you, that 'you were on a break' you really shouldn't forgive him; although I suspect you will.