Cameron on a Camel

Cameron is criticised by some for his visit to Saudi Arabia on the basis that it is not a true democracy and has assisted Bahrain, for example, to deal heavily with its protesters. Furthermore the critics point out that Saudi Arabia is not a democracy and is not going to become one any time soon. From a British perspective these are perfectly valid criticisms and there are occasions from stories one hears, if true, when Saudi Arabia acts like a police state. Having said that we would be quite wrong to refuse to treat with them. They sell us oil, buy properties and businesses and employ people here and buy a significant amount of our military hardware. It should also be pointed out that Saudi Arabia does not approve of Assad's policy against his own people in Syria and neither is it happy about the Iranians and in particular their nuclear bomb programme. Cameron gave an interview on Saudi Arabian TV where he was asked about several of these issues. Here is a snippet from that interview. It has to be said that little by little Cameron is growing into his job. He still looks fresh faced and ridiculously young and you wonder if he will stand up for this country when push comes to shove as it's about to with the continuing euro shambles. We have to hope that the boy will do good which is the last thing that can be said about Balls even if he now seems to be accepting Osborne's Plan A, for the most part anyway. The damage Balls has inflicted on us all through his stint at the Treasury is now obvious although we must thank him for helping to keep us out of the euro. What can we thank the other Ed for? I can think of nothing. Ed was in charge of Climate Change and instituted a policy which will bankrupt us and which this government is sadly doing nothing to stop - certainly not Huhne. I hope Huhne resigns and that a realist is appointed in his place. Whatever is happening with the speeding offence case? It still seems to be in limbo. Surely the CPS must have made up its mind by now about either proceeding or dropping it? If not why not? I hope they have enough evidence to charge the smug little man, then he'll have to resign!