Hating Cameron for the Wrong Reasons

Ah, here's an example of a politician's message getting through to a member of the public:

And what a erudite and witty response from the member of the public in question. Almost rapier like in its clever, razor sharp wit.

There is something in this message, as wonderfully crude and crass as it clearly is, that bothers me. It is the fact that Cameron is being rejected not for any of the rational reasons - his inability to truly commit to anything, his PR obsession, the stupid look on his stupid fucking face - but rather for his background. And he can't help his background. His background can't be helped.

And as such, this poster is just plain bigoted. Don't believe me? Well, imagine if this was an advert for a working class MP. Imagine if the graffiti on it was against a working class MP and it said something like "Fuck off back down the mines". Or if the graffiti was on the poster of a candidate from an ethnic minority, and said "Fuck off back to Africa". There would be huge outrage about the ignorance of the graffiti. Well, truth be told, the graffiti on the poster above is just as ignorant as those other two options.

Of course, you can argue that this represents the opinions of one person; and, given the message has been awkwardly painted on a poster, a not particularly bright or articulate person either. This is just one person... yet it is a person responding to so much of the anti-Cameron rhetoric from the Labour party. The relentlessly promoted idea that Cameron is somehow incapable of being Prime Minister because he happened to go to Eton. The resurrection of class warfare by a desperate party unable to do anything other than attack and campaign negatively. The demand for Cameron to fuck off back to Eton can be traced straight back to Gordon Brown's line about the playing fields of Eton - and the shameful, nonsensical idea in a liberal democracy that some people from some backgrounds are not suitable to hold public office.

Hate Cameron as much as you like; but hate him for what he is, which is something he can control, rather than for where he came from, which is something that he - like everyone else in this world - cannot help.