re: #3 Gus

Cameron is essentially a centrist conservative. In the USA he would be considered a liberal Democrat.

Only because the right wing in America today is so horribly poisoned. However, Cameron’s economics and politics are a joke - a nasty old wingnut joke at that - the one about how the priviliged and the fortunate lecture the country about how success depends on blaming the poor, shafting the poor and exhonerating/ coddling the rich. And they are shafting the poor in this country right now very much, actually. Not rhetoric - they are hurting people.

He may be constrained by what is in many ways a healthier political atmosphere in the uk, for example they may be much less vitriolic and even sometimes relatively reasonable on some social issues, but in their economic philosophy they are on the same page as the most rabid economic wingnuts in America.