Enoch Powell once said every political career ends in failure. The Politician who most exemplifies this quote in current times is Prime Minister David Cameron.
The carcass of his political life is littered with stench of failure which is usually slow burning.
On his watch and ill leadership, Libya was set on fire whose flame is still burning. The decision to intervene in Libya was formatted in Paris and London. They commenced an intervention for which outcome they neither knew or anticipated. The result is a Libya on flames consumed by Islamists. The current refugee crisis has its origins in the demise of the state of Libya which two blind politicians plugged Libya.
The House of Commons saved his bacon when high with power sought to intervene in Syria again as the provisional arm of the Islamic State. This is because direct Western intervention would have resulted in the complete take over by Islamic State of Syria. Again he called a vote in the House of Commons without knowing the outcome of his decision to put the matter before the House of Commons. Any political science student will tell you, never call for a vote if you do not know the numbers on your side.
Following his unexpected victory in the 2010 general election, his solution to the economic palava which hit this country was to hammer the powerless and poor. Cut spendings and cut taxes to pay for the deficit created by the captains of industries and the super rich. They created a insidious political atmosphere against the disabled and unemployed. Scum was poured on such identified groups for having the temerity of relying on the state. The social contact which tied the poor to the rich was broken. Council and social tenants were made to feel unworthy to live in affluent areas. He increased university costs and placed the burden on poor students. He presided over a regime of shaming people who were lest able to answer for themselves. That created a slow burn of resentment. That resentment then directed against immigrants who become the whipping person to the abuser and abused.
Without empirical evidence, he gave a commitment to reduce levels of net migration into the UK. There are two classes of immigration into the UK. From the EU and rest of the world. The movement from the EU is a legal right and they have equal nationality with UK citizens. Therefore to put a figure on their numbers is at best myopic or at worse incompetent. He missed his own targets by miles and blamed the migrants for his self harm and failure.
Finally, the creme da la cremee was the offer to give an IN or OUT referendum on the EU. This given the above background would have been clear to Steven Wonder how the people will react.
Again never ask a question if you do not know the answer before hand. The British people in all surveys have supported the death penalty but the sovereign parliament have always rejected such a motion. Important state issues are not a matter for referendum. Including complex issues such as membership of a supernational state from which essential economic benefit accrue.
David Cameron attended Eton, an elite high school, gained a first class degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He clearly went to Oxford but Oxford did not go through him. He was a parliamentary assistant and worked briefly as a public relations man. He is from a higher income middle class family. His father hid money in Panama.
On the eve of an international anti corruption conference, he chose to abuse some of the participants including Nigeria who he described as being fantastically corrupt. A classic own goal by a man born with his silver foot in his mouth.
He almost lost Scotland to the United Kingdom by his teeth. He killed a political party, the Liberal Democrats. He made them give up a cardinal plank of their commitment to their largest constituents, students. By obliging them to fail on their pledge not to increase university tuition. That singular act killed that party by the next election in 2015
Now for his crowning glory. He proposed a national constitutional answer to a UKIP question which had marginal threat to a few vulnerable parliamentary seats of the Conservative party. He sought to being a gun to a knife fight with UKIP.
David Cameron proposed and kept to the promise, an IN or OUT referendum on the EU. This against his economic crimes against his people with misdirected economic solution for which they were looking for who to kick. A man farts and the humans blames the dog is the adage that well describes the mood of the British people. David Cameron commits economic fart against his people and they blame immigrants and EU.
The people decided to vote against the EU cutting their noses to spite their faces under a government elected to save the people from themselves.
David Cameron resigns and his political career ends in utter failure. Enoch Powell saw him coming hence his famous apt statement, all political career ends in failure. He failed.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 