His plea over the Greensill scandal seems to be that he’s a standup guy made to look like a chancer by a spellchecker
Hauled before two select committees to answer for his Greensill lobbying role, David Cameron yesterday claimed his text to the Treasury mentioning a “rate cut” might in fact have meant to say “VAT cut”. As the former prime minister put it: “I think I’m a victim of spellcheck here.” A what now? Still, you’ll have nothing but respect for this excuse, which is basically: “I fear that I, a standup guy, have been autocorrected into a complete chancer.” And yet … on which phone software does VAT autocorrect to rate? I’m afraid I found it rather difficult to watch this section of the hearings and not think: can you ducking believe this aunt?
I say “this section of the hearings”. In fact, Cameron’s appearances provided if not an embarrassment of riches, then certainly an embarrassment of embarrassments. Though he declined to reveal either his vast Greensill salary, or precisely how many millions he made in 2019 when he sold just some of his shares, the audience was repeatedly invited to consider his plight. “There isn’t really a roadmap for an ex-prime minister,” Cameron lamented at one point, “particularly a young one … ” Seriously, dude. I’ll give you a ducking roadmap.
