Cameron’s not so simple message

Just watched David Cameron’s question and answers session in Belfast this morning online. Unlike Reg (below) I actually think he had very little to say to people on this side of the Irish Sea.

New partnerships always have big communications issues to overcome. Each party’s message has to knit into the other. This is not happening here. Cameron is talking about the UK and taking it for granted that NI is a fully signed up member. 

His core proposal was that the Union should be stronger and that he wants to lead a United UK. Grand so, but he talked about issues which were devolved as if they were not and did not address a single one of the key political issues in Northern Ireland such as education, policing and justice or sectarianism. I can’t imagine him escaping a similar meeting in the English midlands for example without talking about racism. This sounded like the bloke from England who came over to talk about GB, not someone who wants to lead NI also.

All in all I was underwhelmed by the Tory Messiah and his vision for NI within the UK. Not because I disagree with it, because I still don’t know what it is.

Beginning to see what President Elect Obama meant when he let it be known he does not have much time for Mr Cameron.