Perhaps he is trying to set himself up as the Barack Obama of the Uk.
referring to Obama's speech, in which the US Democratic presidential candidate warned that absent black fathers were behaving like teenagers and shirking their responsibilities to their children, Cameron said: "I think he's absolutely right. I mean I think it's a very brave thing to do. And it will have a huge influence that he has said it. I've had a number of meetings with black church leaders who make the same point. They are concerned about family breakdown and social breakdown, and want to see what I call a responsibility revolution take place."reports the paper.
Another item to add to his responsiblity agenda no doubt and the choice of the Guardian to air them?
Under its leader entitled Cameron 2.0 the paper says
There is a dimension of politics, David Cameron observes in his Guardian interview today, that is a bit like completing the first level of Tomb Raider. Get past level one of the 1990s computer game, says Mr Cameron, and in political terms you have persuaded the voting public that you are a normal person who inhabits the same world that they do. Now you can move on to level two, where you can speak - and be listened to - about the issues that really matter.adding that
Not even Mr Brown, who can still be strangely complacent about Mr Cameron's persuasive skills, should doubt that the Tory leader, with his steady 20-point opinion poll leads, is now firmly installed on level two
Is the paper coming out in favour of Cameronism?
Mr Cameron has also decided to take the calculated political risk of upping the ante on the social agendabut
most households and most communities in this country are not broken - and most voters know it. This argument over welfare and poverty has barely begun. Labour's record on social justice and communities may not be perfect, but it is not abject either
Two years is a long time
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