Sunday, April 10, 2011

Cameron, Save or populism?

David Cameron's visit to Grenada has not gone unnoticed in the British media. But do not think that that was the intention of the conservative premier, whose environment leaked to a handful of writers related the details of the trip and perhaps the photos waiting with his wife when boarding the flight of Ryanair.

Many Spanish have been positively surprised that a prime minister traveling in a low cost airline. Especially in light of the storm around the MEPs' decision to continue flying in first class. In the UK, however, the reaction was much more nuanced. In part by the skepticism of citizens to their political and partly because the British know the path and know that Cameron is a politician prone to dramatic effects and showmanship of his personal life.

This time it was to celebrate the 40th birthday of his wife with a romantic weekend and make it like any middle-class British family: booking airline tickets at a cheap and staying at a hotel not too expensive. The farce it rounded a discreet escort and a visit to the Alhambra without warning.

Details that Cameron tried to present as they are not: a marriage union will trouble making ends meet. Of course, the reality is quite different. The prime minister and his wife are wealthy enough to stay at any hotel in the world and the trip to Granada is not an example of the meanness of Cameron but a sign of political maneuvering that led him to turn his life into a reality show to the delight of the citizenry.

It is not the first time the Conservative leader reveals intimate details of his life chiseled to an effigy of common man. For years he did overexpose your sick child in the front pages of newspapers and using their problems as the real proof of his love of Public Health. Now it does trying to shake the label of posh with a long weekend in the outskirts of the Alhambra.

In any case, Cameron is not the first British politician to tweak your vacation with political expediency. Upon assuming power in 2007, the Labour Gordon Brown failed to visit their usual place of summer: the U.S. Gulf of Cape Cod in his first summer in office, Brown decided to simply not spend the summer: his advisers touted that only had four leisure hours to enhance the image of fire-fighting against floods, terrorist attempts and outbreaks of FMD.

A scheme that did not appreciate the columnists who criticized the prime minister workaholism and forced him to change strategy: in 2008 he decided to spend a few days in a cottage in Dorset and in 2009 it was a week to do community work in an NGO. Brown for saying that it protected their privacy swashbuckling family and did not put to the public the embarrassment of the pictures in bathing suits and sand castles with the kids.

But holidays were also cardboard and were thought of as the negative of its intimate enemy: the opulent Tony Blair, who summered on the yacht of Cliff Richard and walked by Berlusconi's Villa Certosa. The most significant difference between Gordon Brown and David Cameron is perhaps the hypocrisy of the Tory leader will show one thing and then do the opposite.

At no time in a more bloody than in the summer of 2008. When Cameron was photographed with her children in swimsuits on the beaches of the English county of Cornwall and then celebrated the 60 th anniversary of his mother away from the cameras on the deck of a luxury yacht moored off the Turkish coast.

Vacation ideas appeared on the cover of the Daily Mirror. " But do not publicize because the Conservative leader but because they saw some British tourists. So it was learned that the stay on the ship cost about 24,000 euros a week and that its facilities were the washer, dryer, bedrooms with air conditioning and unlimited access to the Internet.

A plane just like Ryan Air or a small hotel in Granada.

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