The resignation of Iain Duncan Smith had as much to finish with Cameronian snobbery as the EU or welfare. The players are getting fed up with the gentlemenThe year: 2010. The place: a marginal constituency in an election campaign. The scene: David Cameron,still a relatively fresh face at the top of the Conservative party, is in town to sprinkle some leaderly stardust on the local candidate. The prospective MP for Wherever-on-Sea is grateful for the boost, or has done everything to design it an agreeable day out for the boss. But when the time comes to leave,when all the flesh has been pressed and the photos called, Cameron leaves without a word of thanks or even a backward glance, or his mind already on the more distinguished thing he has to finish next.
If I can still recall this episode,imagine how clearly it is etched in the mind of the MP on the receiving stop of Camerons hauteur. Imagine also the volume of minor offences, the unreported ego‑grazings and bruised ambitions inflicted by the prime minister on his swaggering procession through the Conservative party.
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Source: theguardian.com