Reply #6: I agree with you in a way; but I think his strings will be pulled by the truly nasty

[LeftishBrit]

He's no Macmillan. Macmillan was politically clever enough to rule from the ideological left of his party, and marginalize or control the right-wingers. Thatcher was politically clever enough to rule from the ideological right of her party and marginalize or control the moderates. Cameron isn't politically clever in that way; he is vaguely moderate but has no real ideas except wanting to be PM; and is *lucky* in that the Labour party are obligingly making that easy for him and that our media are predominantly pro-Tory. Once he gets into office, he'll be pulled this way and that by those politically cleverer and mostly more right-wing than himself, and will either kowtow to them, or be pushed out in favour of someone more ideologically RW - probably the former.