The incessant babble emanating from Twitter is something you either love or completely fail to understand. And clearly PM–in–waiting, David Cameron, falls into the latter camp. Speaking in a radio interview, the Tory toff laid into the planet’s favourite social network with a sweary rant. Want to see what DC had to say for himself? Best keep reading.
David Cameron: media trained wannabe Prime Minister turned Twitter basher. The Leader of the Opposition, always one to choose his words carefully, let down his guard this morning on Absolute Radio, telling host Christian O’Connell that Twitter turns you into “a twat.”
Asked why he wasn’t following in the footsteps of MPs including his own frontbench warmer Grant Shapps, Cameron said, “”It’s too instantaneous… Too many twits might make a twat”
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Sky’s Adam Boulton has it on good authority that Cameron’s people don’t regard “twat” as a swear word. Still, nice to hear someone usually associated with Blair–style soundbites tell us what he’s really thinking.
With only 13 per cent of Tory MPs on Twitter according to the excellent Tweetminister, compared to Labour’s 61 per cent, maybe Mr Cameron wants his party to focus on, you know, policy rather than blathering about what they’re necking in the members bar.
