Cameron goes beyond the pale

I’m to the right on the political spectrum. The Conservatives would be my natural home, but I don’t belong to any political party.

Occasionally a politician does something which puts them in sharp focus and gives me a firm view of them. Gove’s actions and several of his speeches mark him as a serious man I will always give attention to.

Boris’s seeming determination to do no prep whatsoever before he talks about the huge subject of Brexit marks him as a shambling idler. He had better hope he doesn’t get a senior ministerial job before his run for the Tory leadership. The application needeed would do for him.

Cameron has now decided to spend £9.3m of our money – OUR money – on government propaganda delibarately designed to skew the referendum, as he knows the Leave campaigns cannot match that spending.

It would be one thing if he was spending his mother’s inheritance on this propaganda. But it’s taxpayers’ money. Or rather, it’s money the government is borrowing, which we, the little people with no wealthy family background, will have to pay interest on, maybe for ever.

Multiple sources report that a whole team of Whitehall civil servants have in the last week or so been seconded from their departmental jobs to help the Remain campaign. Taxpayer-funded officials from the Cabinet Office, Treasury and Foreign Office are said to have been moved to campaign roles. The slanted rules say such activity from publicly-paid staff is banned if they want to help the Leave campaign.

Such shamelessly blatant corruption of democracy should have no place in our politics, especially at the highest level.

Sign the petition against this.

(For what it’s worth, I will also be returning my leaflet to Downing Street in an unstamped envelope.)

Cameron here has crossed a line. He is deliberately undermining democracy to get the result he wants. (Did he get the idea from the EU, or was it always his personal morality?)

I can never support this dictator ever again.