As we enter another turbulent week in British politics (nothing new here, going by the trend over the past 13 years under Tory leadership), I don’t want to dwell too much on the removal of one of the most morally vile Home Secretaries to step into the Commons (Suella “Cruella” Braverman), as doing so would keep the memory of her depravity alive. However, we see yet again a desperate recycling of another face that caused so much trauma to millions of people up and down the country; David “Dodgy Dave” Cameron.

Let’s have a brief reminder of the things he managed to achieve during his time as a Prime Minister between 2010 and 2016, through his Austerity Programme:

• Cuts to the National Health Service;
• Cuts to the social care sector;
• Cuts to criminal justice services: including police, prisons, courts, prosecution and probation;
• Cuts to fire services;
• Cuts to welfare and benefits services;
• Cuts to local council budgets;
• Reduction in building of new houses;
• Trebling of higher education tuition fees…

…and the list goes on and on…

Alongside his (and his private school friends’) success in bringing ordinary people across the country to their knees, he was profoundly weak as a leader in his inability to curtail the racist and xenophobic far-righters in his own political Party intent on furthering a new anti-EU project. Perhaps this served him well? It certainly drew attention away from the millions the Conservative Party were receiving in donations from questionable characters with questionable links, and the blind eyes they were turning to money laundering by foreign dictators through UK banks. It also drew attention away from the fact that the dire state of the nation’s finances, the backlogs on waiting lists, decreasing salaries, increasing workloads, record-level unemployment, huge public sector shortages, and increasing absolute poverty, were directly attributable to David Cameron and his corporate-criminal friends in government…instead shifting attention towards vulnerable migrants and refugees fleeing persecution in their home countries.

Suffice it to say that this new narrative backfired on his own image, rendering him disgraced by the average ‘Brexit’ voter as he desperately campaigned for the UK to remain in the European Union…only to realise his once-“friends” from the far-right did more than just save his skin from blame, but were greatly successful in convincing over half of the voters on the EU Referendum of some mythical sense of sovereignty and independence we would collectively experience; a magical pot of money that would suddenly be discovered and pumped into our public services; the fairy-tale disaster of a Turkish entry into the EU that would be avoided; and of course, those pesky human rights that would be magnificently diluted, so we could edge closer to an undesired rogue state.

Cameron’s return, this time as Foreign Secretary, seems though to be more of a desperate attempt by current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to give the impression that his stance has shifted away from the radical far-righters in his Party (i.e. those who got him internally elected as leader in the first place) towards a more ‘centrist’ [if you could call it that] and recently nostalgic form of politics. While the shift away from the abhorrent factions of the Conservative Party is, of course, commendable (I guess we can say: ‘credit where credit is due’), this new stance simply demonstrates what Sunak always represented through his core self; the rich, the private-school-educated and out-of-touch minority cliques of British society.