official: Dave the Tea Boy is a media tart

The Guardian capers about gleefully at the thought of David Cameron becoming leader of the Tories. They do it in an article called Confessions of a media tart.

He notes too that "I have only spoken to the prime minister twice in my life (once, when he visited the Home Office, where I was an adviser, was to ask if he wanted tea or coffee).

Blair's reply is unrecorded - but he can't have expected the tea boy to face him across the Commons a decade later.

Right, from now on he’s Dave the Tea Boy. A couple of things:

ITEM: For I don’t know how many years the thought of the Guardian and its hordes of hairy readers was enough to send any self respecting Tory purple in the face. But now the fact that Dave the Tea Boy’s got the Guardian’s endorsement is part of what causes them to fall in love with him. And yea, the red in tooth in claw shall lie down with the crusties…

ITEM: As a point of minor sociological interest, it may be that certain media types are feeling ready, for the first time in their lives, to vote Tory should the right candidate appear. At least the thought of doing so gives them a kind of illicit thrill: shall we get out the pink fluffy handcuffs tonight dear? Or shall we vote for David Cameron at the next election?” “Ooh, Dave the Tea Boy. I’m all moist.”

But in terms of a more general reaching out across the centre ground to lefties hacked off with Blair, well there are already a few data points that show it isn’t working.

Comments

[dsquared]

I am going to start dropping the phrase "a couple of grams of Cameron/a quick line of Cameron/a cheeky snort of Cameron" into conversation and see if it catches on.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: just for the fun and devilment of it, obviously.

[Matthew]

What will the Decents say? They were exercised enough by the eating of tomatoes on italian bread at dinner parties, let alone this kind of malarkey...

[David]

I think we should call him Charlie Cameron.