Cameron is shogun style dictator whose plan to bomb Syria shows his contempt for democracy

The prime minister has defied parliament over Syria, abolished human rights and undermined unions says Kevin Maguire

By Kevin Maguire, 23:26, 19 July 2015, Source

Defying Parliament to secretly bomb Syria is David Cameron showing his true colours as a chubby-cheeked dictator.

Behind the disarming smirk is a Tory extremist far to the right of the centre ground he dishonestly claims to occupy.

The Prime Minister would be drummed out of Downing Street if MPs possessed a collective respect after he gave British pilots a green light to attack, after the House of Commons grounded raids.

Syria is what the police would identify as the modus operandi of a criminal, a pattern of behaviour by an out of control Conservative shogun with no respect for democracy.

Cameron’s fatwa to destroy opponents is the intolerance of a tinpot authoritarian determined to recreate Britain as a nastier nation, a land of cheap labour where working people are chopped down and critics are silenced.

His messianic determination to bomb Syria, ignoring evidence the Islamic State has spread while the US and UK have targeted the fanatics in Iraq – never mind neglecting the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq – is terrifying.

Frightening too is the Tory boot on the BBC. The broadcaster is part of the establishment. It’s supplied spin doctors to Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson. But the dictator won’t tolerate even minor dissent.

Replacing 50 elected MPs with 50 unelected Cameron cronies in the House of Lords would shame a banana republic.

Crushing trade unions is the evil tactic of every tyrant the world over and I owe my friend, Mick Whelan, general secretary of the Aslef train drivers’ union, an apology.

I thought Whelan had gone over the top when he compared Cameron’s clampdown to Nazi tactics, until I discovered pickets will be forced to wear armbands. Seizing homes from charitable Housing Associations so the Child of Thatcher may pay homage to his heroine is insolent.

Scrapping human rights, prying into our private lives with a snoopers’ charter and rolling back Freedom of Information – the Act that exposed Cameron’s sneaky bombing in Syria – are the acts of an autocrat with utter contempt for freedom.

Cameron’s exploitation of a flukey election win and Labour’s subsequent disarray is the mad power grab of a leader who does what he likes.

Unless the chubby-cheeked dictator is held to account and stopped in his tracks, we will all be the poorer and Britain a crocked country.