David William Donald Cameron (pronunciation: /ˈkæmərən/; born 9 October 1966) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. He represents Witney as its Member of Parliament (MP).
Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
He was defeated in his first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997, but was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. With a public image of a youthful, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.
Tony Blair: You've learned nothing from me, Gordon - absolutely nothing. Because if you had, you would have acquired at least a *hint* of charisma. But then you and charisma have never really been on speaking terms.::Gordon Brown: The public don't want charisma any more - what they want is honesty.::Tony Blair: Instead of which, they get you!
[Tony Blair is reading a newspaper report]::Tony Blair: Oh my God. George is back in rehab.::Cherie Blair: George?::Tony Blair: Bush. George Bush. Oh God, he was found comatose on his ranch.::Cherie Blair: [drily] I'm surprised anyone noticed.::Tony Blair: He's my friend. All right? George is my friend. We went through hell together.::Cherie Blair: Oh, I thought you sent other people to do that.
[Now led by Gordon Brown, Labour have just won a fourth term in office - but with an absurdly small majority. Gordon rings Tony.]::Tony Blair: Gordon, my congratulations.::Gordon Brown: I am heading for a majority of two, for God's sake. Two!::Tony Blair: Well a majority's a majority.::Gordon Brown: It's going to be a bloody disaster.::Tony Blair: It's the historic fourth term, Gordon.::Gordon Brown: You are electoral death!::Tony Blair: I don't think you can blame *me* for what you call your ludicrously small majority.::Gordon Brown: You've held onto power for far too long, Tony.::Tony Blair: Oh really? Well quite frankly if I'd packed it in sooner you'd only have had more time to balls it up, wouldn't you?
[Tony is meeting the publisher of his memoirs who is very critical of the book and recommends a lot of changes to it.]::Publisher: I think the chapters on the Iraq War could be trimmed - the book would benefit and sales would benefit.::Tony Blair: You will not cut a word of those chapters. I did not take this country to war in order to be popular.::Publisher: [drily] Well you certainly succeeded there.::Tony Blair: [pauses for thought] I took this country to war because it was the right thing to do. It was the right thing for Britain and one day history will judge me. And it'll be the liberal journalists, the sneering intellectuals, the appeasers, the bloodless, spineless chattering classes of which you are obviously a member, those will be the ones found wanting, those'll be the ones in the dock of history, not me. Because if I'd listened to all the *moral* cowards, like you, then that murdering bastard Saddam Hussain would still be in power. So cut one word from those memoirs and, so help me, I'll take it away from you.::Publisher: Then you won't mind if it's so laughable and ridiculous and poorly-written that no-one wants to read it.
Cherie Blair: Here's that RCI information I was telling you about.::Tony Blair: RCI?::Cherie Blair: Rite of Christian Initiation.::Tony Blair: But I *am* Christian!::Cherie Blair: No, you're Church of England.
[Discussing Blair's autobiography]::Publisher: You 'feel the hand of God on your shoulder' no less than 29 times!::Tony Blair: Oh yes...::[He laughs]::Tony Blair: ...it was a bit more than that, actually.
Plot
In the fictional city of Monticello, attorney Mike Karr and his colleagues are involved in solving crimes and intrigue which touch the lives of many citizens. Some such citizens include dowager Geraldine Whitney, the frequently-married Raven Alexander, attorney Adam Drake and his wife, Nicole, attorney Draper Scott and his wife, April, Police Chief Bill Marceau, night club owner Johnny Dallas, physician Dr. Miles Cavanaugh, young Jody Travis and her many boyfriends, and Mike Karr himself, his wife, Nancy, and their daughter, Lorrie. All the usual soap opera devices, including prolonged amnesia, a woman with a split personality, murderous mobsters, usurped identities, and murders with many suspects, are used quite effectively in this long running serial.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, attorney, courtroom, murder, partially-lost-tv-series, soap-opera