Much has been made by politicians and pundits alike on the reasons for Cameron launching an enquiry into whether Baroness Warsi has breached the Ministerial Code. Adding to the other enquiry to be conducted by the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards, triggered by her herself, for other ‘problems’.
It is suggested by some that Camerons’ actions are racially motivated and that he wants to dump her because she is a Muslim. My personal view is he does want to get rid of Warsi, not because she is a Muslim, but because she has been an ineffectual joint Party Chairperson. However to just sack her would, in itself, have left him open to those very same racist accusations. So not wanting to appear in that colour he has used the instruments of Government, expecting a negative report, to get the result he wants without getting his hands dirty.
Irony of irony his defensive actions have opened him up to the very charges he tried to avoid in that, perversely, his actions are racially motivated.
How much simpler it would have been for Cameron to ‘advise’ Warsi to step down as she had become the story, however, he could not do that because he has placed himself in a lose lose situation over his stubbornness in clinging on to Hunt. A stubbornness that has already brought him to grief with Coulson.
There is an often quoted saying that an effective Prime Minister needs to be a good butcher. Cameron has shown himself to be incapable of wielding the knife and so the hares will keep running. And by chasing more than one hare he will catch neither.
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