Jagger and the Tories

Did Mick Jagger do the right thing by attending Boris Johnson's event yesterday rather than Cameron's? Is the Prime Minister underrated? Cameron certainly comes across as someone who deals in understatements which one assumes is deliberate and done in order to change people's opinions about the Tories being the nasty party. I think the understatement is now overdone and that he should become a little more passionate and prepared to go into greater detail about what he wants to achieve. The Tories are the party of low taxes and Osborne should take up Clegg's call for speeding up the process of increasing the personal allowance to £10,000. Clegg's statement that hedge fund managers paid less on their shares (by which he means dividends?) and on capital gains than a secretary on her income should be dismissed as the complete nonsense it is. Janet Daley has a good blog about this here. It is essential that there is a bit of passion at the top about the Union, Taxes, Welfare and long needed Reforms. The last thing we need is a technocratic government which it seems to me that coalitions often become because  coalition parties pull their punches in order to help their government survive. Nothing wrong with that so long as each of the parties remains true to itself. A show of some passion by Cameron on the issues he feels strongly about will help to improve the public's view of politicians so despoiled by the last Labour government. Peter Oborne has a very interesting and thoughtful article about the degeneration of public morals here.