Dave Does the Right Thing E-Book

Owen Dudley Edwards

• Herausgeber: Luath Press
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 34

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Meet Dave. Dave is Prime Minister. Dave really wants to do the right thing. He keeps telling us he wants to do the right thing. Again and again and again. One afternoon he told us four times in half an hour. Then he went off and did the right thing. Every morning when he wakes up, he reminds himself to remind us that he's doing the right thing. But what is the right thing? And what is the wrong thing? And is doing the right thing the right thing or the wrong thing to do? Or is doing the wrong thing the right thing to do when doing the right thing might turn out to be the wrong thing, and doing the wrong thing might turn out to be the right thing? Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they've tried everything else WINSTON CHURCHILL Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing TONY BLAIR If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is. FRANK LAMPARD

Leseprobe

DAVID CAMERON became Prime Minister on 11 May 2010, at the age of 43, the youngest PM since Lord Liverpool became PM following the assasination of his predecessor Spencer Perceval in 1812. He was first elected to Parliament as the Member for Witney in 2001. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he currently lives in Downing Street, SW1 next door to his good friend George.

OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS is Hon. Fellow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, at the University of Edinburgh where he taught History from 1968, having been born in Ireland and studied in the USA. His wife Bonnie is American and his three children are Scots. His most recent major monograph is British Children’s Fiction in the Second World War, his most recent collaboration Tartan Pimps, and he has edited several books including A Claim of Right for Scotland.

BOB DEWAR was born in Edinburgh and published his first illustrations at the age of 16. He went on to ghost Dennis the Menace and to work on The Scotsman. He has since illustrated many books, worked for many newspapers, held exhibitions and had caricatures hung in the House of Commons, among other places.

First published 2014

ISBN: 978-1-910324-43-1

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Contents

Foreword by Socrates

Introduction by Owen Dudley Edwards

1Dave Does the Right Thing for Britain

2Dave Does the Right Thing Abroad

3Doing the Right Thing: Welfare

4The Economy

5People Who Work Hard

6The Path of Righteous Dave is Beset on All Sides

7Why? Just because…

8Thanks for Doing the Right Thing

9Dave is Doing the Right Thing, Right?

Foreword

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action – that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one – Socrates, in Plato’s Apology

Introduction

OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS

Mr David Cameron appears to be busy with other matters, and so we have not troubled him to introduce this collection. My own credential is that I am writing a book for the same publishers, Messrs Luath Press, of Edinburgh, called How David Cameron Saved Scotland