Reply #1: Cameron 's background is PR

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He does not have much experience in developing plans and then implementing them. The PM is therefore happy for the IMF, OECD or BOE to provide most of the intellectual props for him. He then just tries to sell these ideas like soap powder. This is why he is still plugging away touting austerity even though the signs are that these policies are causing the UK economy to go back into recession.

There is no meaningful criticism of this position from the Liberal Democrats as they are welded into the Coalition and can not escape without risking a General Election and the inevitable political oblivion it will bring at the polls.

Miliband and Balls have been busy pointing out that most of Cameron's 'medicine' is killing the patient but they are hampered by the fact that many of the public still blame the last Labour government for letting public and private borrowing getting out of hand in the first place. There is also the issue that far too many Labour politicians still buy into the insane neo liberal thinking that got us and most of the western world into this mess. As a result British Parliamentary politics is really drifting listlessly at the moment waiting for events elsewhere to drive it. In fact the biggest threat at the moment to Cameron comes not from his Liberal Democrat coalition partners or the Labour Party but from his own Conservative back benchers who are likely to hold his feet to the fire if he is seen as 'selling out Britain' in any rewriting of EU treaties.