Who should Cameron visit next?

In the last ten days David Cameron has spent time as a classroom assistant and with a Muslim family in Birmingham.  What would he benefit from doing next?  Sensible suggestions preferred!

Comments

[chrisblore]

A white middle class family living in the South of England with kids attending grammar schools.

Secondly, a mental health facility. Mental healthcare has been neglected in recent years and yes, he may benefit from it personally as well!

[John Reeks]

Maybe go to the countryside and spend a few days with a small farmer.

[Occasional Visitor]

How about some time with an ordinary middle-class family that is potentially Tory voting but rather put off by the current Not-the-Conservative Party hierarchy's Blairist mission?

[Alan S]

A night-time security guard.

[Hug a Druggie]

Spend time in a drug rehabilitation clinic.

[Alison Inglis-Jones]

An urban youth club to see how young people can be inspired to make the most of their sports and creative skills outside the school environment.

[Umbrella man]

With a nurse in a casualty ward on Friday/ Saturday night. He'll see a world of drunkenness, drug addiction and general social breakdown.

[Bradford]

He should spend a week living on Holme Wood or Ravenscliffe or Buttershaw estates in Bradford and see how life appears for those living there......

[Gunther]

He could stay with a family in Bishops Avenue, East Finchley, and find what a financial struggle it is to manage to pay the bills.

[toryintheeast]

Perhaps DC should try visiting some actual Tories....

But hey, today's news

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/browse/it-and-telecoms/general/vacancy-w102453.html

(via G Fakwes) should definitely lay to rest any remaining conservatives who have faith in the Cameron Project!

How do you like them apples?

[Tanuki]

Get him to spend a day [and a night] in an army barracks so he experiences the sub-standard living conditions our servicemen have to contend with.

If not that, how about a day spent with a small businessman so he gets an insight into the vast bureaucratic/regulatory burden we work under?

[William Norton]

Guest editor of Con Home for a day?

[Neville]

Policy review activites could identify opportunities for further visits. Such visits would inform future policy development. We have had enough of ill thought through labour initiatives

[William Norton]

Passing thought: should it not be "Whom should Cameron visit next"?

[simon]

Ming Campbell. To discuss their futures.....

[michael.mcgough]

His MPs and MEPs !

[Rachel Joyce]

A job centre to find out why there are so many youth unemployed and why New Deal isn't working (not that we don't already know), and a GP surgery as well to find out why so many people who are able to work are listed for incapacity benefit.

[Matthew Dear]

With the staff of a voluntary organisation :-)

[Justin Hinchcliffe]

Some excellent suggestions have already been made, but I'd like to invite him to Tottenham and visit the local mental health facilities (which were almost destroyed under Thatcher).

[Michael McGowan]

Justin, when is Project Cameron going to reopen the coal mines and reinstate the closed shop to show that they have "changed"?

[ACT]

The bar at White's, where he could then ask: 'where are the women? where are the ethnic minorities?'

[Hayek's Grandad]

A hard working family in the south east who having started in a council flat with the 'benefit' of a 'comprehensive' education have worked incredibly hard so that they can pay a large tax bill and further subsidise the country by paying for private education, private healthcare and private pensions. A family that are so tired of being called names by Cameron's "Conservatives" for their troubles that they've just cancelled thier party donations and membership.

[MH]

Sevenoaks, Kent. So he can find out first hand why the local association's funds have been wiped out by the incompetence of the Management Team and they ended up losing a high profile court case for unfair dismissal of the Agent.

[Toryboy]

How about a Grammar school?

[Dontmakemelaugh]

Visit Dagenham to find out why the residents,
despite greatly resenting the immigration policies of Labour, will still not be voting for a Conservative MP and why their Labour MP is worried.

[chris]

Scotland the Tories are not doing well there. and We need the Tories more than ever to sort out the problems in the Parliment.

[christine talbot]

Come to Lincolnshire and see the good work that goes on in SEN and see the new Special Schools that have been built by one of the most successful PFI Schemes in the Country. He was invited to visit prior to his leadership campaign and declined!

[Bill]

It's been a demanding week. Perhaps he deserves a break. It's Saturday tomorrow. Perhaps Dave, Boris and George could dust down their Bullingdon coats and take their other halves to a May ball. After all the flack he's had they might as well invite Dave Willetts along; I am sure he'd be happy to sport a dinner jacket (unlike our next Prime Minister).

[Bill]

sorry FRIDAY

[Justin Hinchcliffe]

Michael McGowan asks if we should re-open the mines. Well, there are certainly strong argumnets for doing so...

[TomTom]

Michael McGowan asks if we should re-open the mines. Well, there are certainly strong argumnets for doing so...

Posted by: Justin Hinchcliffe | May 17, 2007 at 13:35

Make them Justin....I don't see how re-opening pits competes with Silesian coal...it is only Chinese demand for coal that has made British seams even remotely viable...but who wants to be a miner nowadays when University beckons ?

[Og]

I'd have him visit John Howard and Peter Costello in Australia and study their models for growth, employment, taxation and immigration. At his own expense, of course, as there is no guarantee that he will put any of this good sense policy into practice.

[Sally Roberts]

I agree with the comment made above that he should visit one of our struggling farmers.

[George F]

he should spend some time as a pupil in a local comp and then rethink his eduction policies!

[Reg]

"A white middle class family living in the South of England with kids attending grammar schools."

That would be me then!

But how un-PC and "old" Tory would that be - and of course he can't be seen to be supporting his own kind, that would lose him votes!

[Thomas Wales]

A working class family who's kids go to Grammar School.

There are plenty of them despite what the press may think.

[Tabman]

"He'll see a world of drunkenness, drug addiction and general social breakdown."

He's been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. He was in the Bullingdon, remember ;o)

[Graham Checker]

His wife and family.

He could do with taking the phone off the hook, sitting down with a beer, realise he's not Blair - and that no-one wants another Blair - and carefully reflect on just what the heck he thinks he's playing at right now.

[George Hinton]

How about a reality check, and spend some time with grass roots supporters of the Conservative Party and listen to what they want.

[Tedsboy]

Why Scotland? That is a devolved country which will become independent. He should visit the English Democrats so he can learn all about having an English Parliament, and in between times appoint a front bencher to represent the English.

[blunkett's dog]

Camoron should take a one way ticket to the secure wards at Broadmoor.

[Winchester whisperer]

The Pope

[David Holdway]

He should be spending time with actual conservatives. The party needs to move on from Vote Blue Go Green, no one in target seats cares, just young trendsetters. The party needs a message and an ideology. Principles need to be brought back to politics.

[David Holdway]

He should be spending time with actual conservatives. The party needs to move on from Vote Blue Go Green, no one in target seats cares, just young trendsetters. The party needs a message and an ideology. Principles need to be brought back to politics.

[One of the Team]

He could have a night out, and then walk home on the Thames.

[Jorgen]

He should visit Lady Thatcher and listen carefully.

[Jonathan]

The Chiltern Hundreds...

unless he first shows Willets around the Manor of Northwood.

[Daniel VA]

"A white middle class family living in the South of England with kids attending grammar schools."

"How about some time with an ordinary middle-class family that is potentially Tory voting but rather put off by the current Not-the-Conservative Party hierarchy's Blairist mission?"

What a good idea!

Spend even more time focusing on the core Conservative vote rather than trying to reach out to potential new supporters.

Brilliant - we can all pretend the past fifteen years haven't happened, and watch as Gordon Brown keeps the keys to 10 Downing Street after the next election.

[Disillusioned]

How about some unannounced visits to association executives to hear what the grassroots really think followed by a tour of grammar schools to hear how unpopular they are with pupils, parents and teachers

[Michael Rutherford]

Following the trend, how about visiting a secondary modern in a suburb somewhere to see what life is like for the other 80%...

[johnC]

Gibraltar and the Falklands, to assure them that a future Conservative Government will reject any malign Foreign Office plots to deprive them of their sovereignty.

[Dave Camoron must go]

A deep underground sewer.

Sellafield's reprocessing plant.

Gordon Brown's Office.

[Robson]

"Secondly, a mental health facility. Mental healthcare has been neglected in recent years and yes, he may benefit from it personally as well!"

In all seriousness, I think he should visit such a facility. These places have been decimated under Labour so that now many people who should be in such care are out in the wider community, a harm to themselves if nothing else.

The way we treat mental illness in this country is a disgrace and Cameron should be as interested in this area as he is with state special schools.

[Gordon]

What would he benefit from doing next? Perhaps sweetening the sour little Englanders, or visiting a psychiatrist

Ex-Conservative voter, Englishman and working class grammar school boy.

[Sean Fear]

"Spend even more time focusing on the core Conservative vote rather than trying to reach out to potential new supporters."

Most of us would settle for him spending *some* time on Conservative supporters, rather than treating them as political opponents.

[Tam Large]

A psychiatrist...

[Tam Large]

And real conservatives need to visit UKIP - the only party committed to supporting grammar schools.

[Jimmy BUCF]

I have to wonder about the comments on this thread, you need to get over yourselves!

Thatcher and Thatcherism is gone, great when it was, it is just not the policy which is required to tackle issues in Modern Britain.

And to all those slagging off Cameron, 12 points ahead of Brown?? We lost an election two years ago by 5 points, 17 point swing round!! We would have given anything for that two years ago! Lets have a debate but can people at least make it constructive??

[Ash Faulkner]

"Thatcherism is gone." How the heck do you work that one out? Of all people, it's the Labour Party trying to shove marketisation through the public sector. Thatcher introduced economic liberalism to the party and the country, and was a success in both regards. It's hardly gone, but as far as victory is death, you're right, it's no longer a matter for debate: but that's a sign of it's very much being here, not it's disappearance.

Anyway, I don't think visiting her would be such a bad thing. He could learn alot about how to really be a leader. He comes across as unprincipled and wet, and people don't want another decade of Blairite spin.

Aside from that, who else to visit? Hmm. A police station for a day, a retirement home, and a few Conservative Associations wouldn't go amiss.

[Gordon]

Tam Large, it's nothing to do with Thatcher. We just don't need another phoney Tony and somebody who slags off the English, thankyou very much - so go soak your head

[Gordon]

Apologies to Tam Large ...Jimmy BUCF ...go soak your head

[Gordon is a Moron]

A recruitment agency, a job centre, a call centre, MacDonald's. He needs first hand experience of looking for a new job and finding one before the knives hit his back.

An IR Office to find out how hopeless Broon's Tax System has become, and amaze himself as taxpayers struggle to understand the income tax form, the Working Family Tax Credit.

Instead of PR stunts he should investigate how to simplify the tax system.

[Gordon is a Moron]

Craggy Island Parochial House, where he might hear some sound advice from Father Jack Hackett.

[Aghast]

Looking forward to next month's popularity poll Tim !

[pauline buffham]

Signing on at a job centre

[Father Jack Hackett,]

Taking time to visit all the British Antartic Survery bases and personnel to view global warming at first hand, and going by sea rather than by air.

[Torygirl]

I think he should spend a few days with a small farmer who is up against the might of the supermarkets and the EU. His overdraft growing daily, and the sale of his pedigree herd looming as his debts mount.

Dave hasn't a clue how the other half live.