David Cameron told Times Radio he wouldn’t be coming back for a third go at politics:
“I’m not coming back to frontline politics, but I do want to help whoever wins. It’s a very difficult job being leader of the opposition and thinking about how to do that and try to become prime minister. And so, you know, whatever help I can give, I want to.”
Next week will see the number of Tory leadership candidates whittled down to four, where it’s expected Mel Stride be will voted out. Leaving Jenrick, Badenoch, Tugendhat, and Cleverly to battle it out until after conference…
Rumours are swirling around SW1 that Lord David Cameron is supportive of James Cleverly, though “isn’t part of the formal team”, and is said to be ringing round MPs encouraging them to vote for the shadow home secretary. A centrist charm offensive then…
UPDATE: Dave’s team gets in touch to insist no phoning’s being done and Cameron is “staying neutral”.
Labour donor and Ecotricity founder Dale Vince has been turning up the heat on the Tories on a subject close to his heart: climate change. Dale, who’s donated more than £5 million to Labour’s election war chest has a fortune estimated at over £100 million. The Foreign Secretary, whom we recently learnt was deceived by a Russian deep fake AI, now has Dale Vince posting an AI generated video featuring the relative pauper David Cameron, whom he calls a member of the “privileged elite”, supposedly apologising for “publicly promising the greenest government and then absolutely shafting it behind closed doors”. It’s hardly a realistic AI performance…
David Cameron is one of the privileged elites that have ruled our country for 14 years now – he’s the originator of cutting ‘the green crap,’ which we’ve just exposed as economic nonsense. Here he is fessing up…:)
Read the full report here: https://t.co/K1sCZWugji pic.twitter.com/2Vd7uN705D
— Dale Vince (@DaleVince) June 22, 2024
In the very missable small print at the bottom Dale mentions it was AI-generated. Can’t help thinking that if someone did this to him the thin-skinned narcissist would be calling his bully boy lawyers…
Last month foreign Secretary David Cameron thought he was having a serious conversation with Petro Poroshenko, ex-Ukrainian President. Unfortunately for Lord Dave, it was a pair of notorious Russian pranksters -‘Vovan and Lexus’- who have just released the footage of their call fooling him into a lengthy chat about foreign policy. A step up from their previous victim Prince Harry…
🇬🇧🇷🇺‼️🚨 WATCH: “Ukrainians are dying for Kazakhstan”
Cameron is prank called by Vovan and Lexus and gets says some interesting things:
1) Nothing will change with the new government in UK for Ukraine 1:47
2) Americans and Germans are not doing enough and need convincing 3:02… pic.twitter.com/5tpG9ecLNL— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 26, 2024
After preening and prepping for the call, finally finding a comfortable space nestled against a wall, Cameron spilled the beans about his private dinner with “unpredictable” Trump, Ukraine being NFI’d to NATO summit and Labour’s likely victory. He told the pro-Putin pranksters that though America and Germany weren’t doing enough, nothing would change under the next government from Britain’s side. Dave’s promise of aid to Ukraine may be more water-tight than his security….
Lord Cameron was rolled out for the morning round today. When asked by Kay Burley what he would do if the Conservatives lost the election he replied:
“If my mother had wheels she would have been a bicycle, I don’t answer questions beginning with ‘if’.”
It’s almost the verbatim Gino D’Acampo joke from May 2010. Has Cameron been reminiscing with the aid of daytime TV from the exact month and year of the first election he won? Simpler times…
UnHerd is reporting that the Foreign Secretary has acted in response to concerns raised by the Business Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, highlighting a Foreign Office-funded NGO – the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) – manipulating legitimate counter-disinformation efforts to provide cover for the undermining of right-of-centre online publications by blacklisting them with advertisers.
Cameron confirmed in writing that “the FCDO has not funded GDI since 2023, and there are no current plans to do so.” UnHerd reports that Dave then underlined that section by hand, and added, a handwritten “thanks for pointing this out.”
Dave wrote that while countering disinformation from adversaries was important, “protecting free speech is a priority for the department”, going on to say that taxpayers funds should be used to “uphold our values”.
Separately, the Chair of the Select Committee on Communications and Digital in the Lords, Baroness Stowell has written to ministers in the Foreign Office and other departments with responsibility for Media and Creative Industries as well as Tech and the Digital Economy, looking for clarification in regard to GDI funding and influence. Looks like the days of the taxpayer funding efforts to defund non-woke media are over.
