«Ever wondered how the prime minister sleeps at night? Now we have the answer: blissful ignorance. — It’s like the crucial moment in Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American. The US agent stares at the blood on his shoes, unable to make the connection between the explosion he commissioned and the bodies scattered across the public square in Saigon. In leaked correspondence with the Conservative leader of Oxfordshire county council (which covers his own constituency), David Cameron expresses his horror at the cuts being made to local services. This is the point at which you realise that he has no conception of what he has done.»
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«The national media has been remarkably slow to pick the story up, given the insight it offers into the prime minister’s detachment from the consequences of his actions. […] Explaining the issue gently, as if to a slow learner, the council leader, Ian Hudspeth, points out […] Again and again, he exposes the figures the prime minister uses as wildly wrong.»