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▲Current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David William Donald Cameron (1966 to present), is the first Conservative PM of the 21st century and the youngest since 1812.
His early life saw him attend Eton College (as have many Prime Ministers) and Oxford University (ditto). At the latter he was a member of the [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats|Bullingdon Club]], an invite-only students' drinking club renowned for being seriously posh and seriously destructive. After graduating, he was an adviser to Norman Lamont and Michael Howard in the [[John Major]] administration, then worked in public relations.
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Cameron's generally privileged upbringing has made him a rich source for satire- and class-based attacks on him. Like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKFTtYx2OHc&feature=related this]. As has his PR background.
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* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: The 'hug a hoodie' fiasco.
** "Call me Dave" has also been claimed to be this.
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* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: During his debates with [[Gordon Brown]] at any rate.
* [[I Am Very British]]
* [[Identical Stranger]]: Doesn't he look rather like [[The Avengers (TV series)|John Steed]]? Seriously!
** He's also been compared to Data from ''[[Star Trek:
* [[Insult Backfire]]: The incident in the run-up to the 2010 election (detailed there and on [[Misaimed Fandom]]) in which the Labour party's ads inadvertently supplied free propaganda by portraying Cameron as a sexist, politically-incorrect TV character utterly incompatible with the 21st century. Only problem was, the character in question was ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''' [[Memetic Badass|Gene Hunt]] sitting on his Audi Quattro.
** Both parties then got ordered to cease-and-desist by [[Kudos]].
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** Incidentally, the first time Obama met him, the president was [[Is This Thing Still On?|heard to mutter]] "What a lightweight".
* [[Totally Radical]]
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* Cameron, like all party leaders, is a regular target for ''[[Private Eye]]'', particularly in the comic strip ''Dave Snooty and his Pals'' (a spoof of ''[[The Beano]]'''s ''Lord Snooty''). In the spirit of the Coalition, he shares his text feature, a parody school newsletter, with Nick Clegg.
* ''[[Headcases]]'' featured Cameron speaking with a distinctively "normal accent" in public and a more "Old Etonian" on in private.
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