One might wonder if David Cameron had tried as hard not to mess things up as he is trying to sell copies of his book, then maybe Britain wouldn’t be such a mess.
Though, if given the chance, Cameron wouldn’t hold back on his austerity programme that many people blame for the anger which led to the Brexit vote in 2016.
During an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby, Cameron said that his main regret is that he didn’t do it “harder and faster”.
Shortly after being told that rough sleeping had skyrocketed during his premiership, he also said:
I do think we tried to do this in a way that was fair and reasonable.
Overall, the strategy did work.
Naturally, given that this economic strategy was condemned by the UN and is estimated by experts to have caused at least 100,000 deaths, people weren’t happy about this.
Twitter didn’t hold back.
Austerity killed 130,00 people according to the British Medical Journal. Not even David Cameron believes what he’… https://t.co/DXtuwzfatK— Aaron Bastani (@Aaron Bastani) 1568664794
David Cameron says his mistake with austerity was not doing it harder and faster. A wretched PM whose legacy was on… https://t.co/J6Oi8RVNId— Angela Rayner (@Angela Rayner) 1568664336
When you killed 130,000 people through austerity and it gave you a thirst for blood https://t.co/UV7YtFPUot— James Felton (@James Felton) 1568662435
Whilst Tory austerity has left millions living in poverty & using food banks & hungry kids rummaging in bins we now… https://t.co/nZtTZdu3SN— Peter Stefanovic (@Peter Stefanovic) 1568667031
There were also other moments that the Internet couldn’t handle. Like the strange catapult-style chairs…
The chairs are distracting and the lighting is similar to the Dragons Den #TheCameronInterview https://t.co/4yOAt1d1kD— Zubeida Malik (@Zubeida Malik) 1568661222
HT The Poke