Dizzy heights
From Martin Green
Sir: Peter Oborne’s star-struck article on David Cameron (‘a joy to behold’) compares him to Disraeli, ‘the greatest of Tory politicians’ (Politics, 7 January). I believe that the comparison is apt, but not in the way that Oborne contends.
Disraeli, as anyone who reads Robert Blake’s biography will discover, was an unprincipled political adventurer whose sole aim was to climb to the top of ‘the greasy pole’. Blake remarks of him that ‘he did not seem to care which way he trav elled providing he was in the driver’s seat’.
If Cameron’s clan ever get into power their sole raison d’être, it appears — they will indeed be the heirs of Disraeli. It was Disraeli, after all, who described a Conservative government as ‘an organised hypocrisy’.
Martin Green
Bridgnorth, Shropshire
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