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Cameron's Munchausen syndrome
Excerpt: Cameron's Desert Island Discs claim that the KGB might have tried to recruit him during his "gap year" sparked some speculation that he might be prone to fantasising about himself. Here's the News 24 version:
Cameron's Desert Island Discs claim that the KGB might have tried to recruit him during his "gap year" sparked some speculation that he might be prone to fantasising about himself. Here's the News 24 version:
the 39-year-old said suspected KGB operatives "interrogated" him as he travelled with a friend on the Black Sea coast in 1985 in his gap year between school and university.
Two Russians speaking "perfect English" turned up on a beach used mainly by foreigners, took them out to dinner and questioned them "in a friendly way" about life in England and politics, he told the Desert Island Discs programme.
"We were obviously very careful and guarded in what we said but later when I got to university my politics tutor said that was definitely an attempt," he recalled.
This sort of speculation is reinforced by the Thom Yorke story, from the very same show (reported in the Independent)
As one of rock'n'roll's most right-on figures, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke is used to people claiming him as a friend. But the Tory leader David Cameron's efforts to trumpet his chumminess with the star have backfired.
Listeners to this morning's edition of Desert Island Discs will hear Mr Cameron talk of how Yorke played a song specially for him at a recent show after requesting the track beforehand. But the left-leaning singer has responded by saying it did not happen.
This is the latest in series of blunders by the inexperienced Tory, who also praised an internet site offering casual sex.
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http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/23185
Peter
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Well the KGB did try to recruit or get the dirt on a wide varity of people back in the USSR days. It is hardly an endorsement of the future importance of Opus David.
As Dave himself might say, "I love it".
I wonder whether it ever occurred to Mr Cameron that pathetically ill-informed and naive people like me might think that the Russians might plausibly have been holidaymakers having a conversation with him? Or that as a gap year student he may not have been privy to the sort of highly confidential info that would have brought down western capitalism had he not been "very careful and guarded"?
As I understand it, the standard format for recruitment of bright young things (and let's give Dave the benefit of the doubt here) was that a Soviet-sympathetic tutor would pass the name of his brightest student to a contact who would initially arrange to meet said student in an Oxford or Cambridge coffee house? Randomly trawling beaches on the Black Sea for spotty school-leavers was hardly common practice.
An interesting insight into Cameron's mind, that one.
Gosh, how dull...
In my days as International Officer of the Young Liberal Democrats, we knew exactly who the KGB guys were (they told us...). And yes, they were interested to know what was going on, but their aim generally was to get to know people who might be in positions of power one day. Can't imagine why they might have wanted to talk to me...
I wonder if the basic underlying problem is that DC is unable to spot an offer of Ugandan discussionsm, whatever the context?
Peter