The now merely comical Dave "Flopsie" the Chameleon

I've realised a few things.

Has anyone considered the "Karma" aspect of the Karma Chameleon charge against Cameron? Not only has Cameron been "A liberal Conservative" "Green" the "Heir to Blair" and "A true Conservative" or whatever in the past few months alone, but in a former life he was in fact Rt. Hon. Jimmy H. Thomas MP, who was expelled from the the Labour Party along with Ramsay Macdonald and Phillip Snowden for their continued participation in the National Government.

Jimmy H. Thomas (Or "Dave the Chameleon" to his mates) was, according to Wikipedia:

"raised by his grandmother and began work at twelve years of age, soon starting a career as a railway worker. He became an official of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and, in 1913, helped organize the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR, now part of the RMT) from the amalgamation of several smaller unions"

He served as colonial secretary in the 1924 Labour administration and Lord Privy seal in the 1929-31 administration. He was dominion secretary in the National government, followed by returning to Colonial secretary shortly before being forced to resign from politics for leaking budget secrets.

Wikipedia notes "It was revealed that he had been entertained by stock exchange speculators and had dropped heavy hints as to tax changes planned in the budget. For example, while playing golf he shouted "Tee up!", which was taken as it was intended: a suggestion that the duties on Tea were to rise."

Clearly, by virtue of a. Treachery and b. Outrageous corruption he had very bad Karma, which is why he's now come back as a Chameleon. What's more my history A level text book described him in relation to the 1931 betrayal as "Ramsay Macdonald, Snowden, and the now merely comical Jimmy H. Thomas."

"Now merely comical" has a nice ring to it. "The now merely comical Dave the Chameleon".

The evidence I have in support of this whole theory is unfortunately classified so you're just going to have to take it on trust.

Other things I've noticed this week...

1. Although it has taken me six years of prevarication "it" (the degree) is now down to the final 6 weeks.

2. That means I'm proper busy, hence the lack of blogging amongst other things

3. So you won't get my thoughts on the new Dave the Chameleon movie. Suffice to say it's good because a. the reasons given last week b. It's harder on the fact that he's true blue and as responsible for the blunders of the last Tory government as anyone c. And it spell out some areas where he's definately already done a total flip flop in the past year or so.

4. I love Karma Chameleon by Culture Club. I was already aware of this as I remember being a toddler and dancing to it when I went on one of my mum's school trips around the time it came out. But I really do - and I'm delighted that I get to have it played to me at Labour Party events for the next four years. Although there was that period in about April 1997 when "Things can only get better" started to become a bit demonic. It soon recovered it's gloss though, with eventualy victory. I'm sure the same will happen with Karma.

5. Dennis Skinner has already called George Osborne "Boy George" (a few months ago whilst accusing him of taking Coke in parliament, hilariously claiming "It must be true, it was in the News of the World)". This is something we should stick to. If Gordon calls him Boy George at Treasury Questions then the next election is practically in the bag.

P.S. I don't mean George Osborne was accused of actually taking coke actually in parliament. I mean the accusation was made in parliament. Clearly when Dave "Flopsie" H. Thomas The Chameleon said "Legislators should not be law breakers" the very minumum requirements of consistency (which the current front bench are renowned for) mean that actually snorting coke *whilst legislating* is a big no no.