David Cameron (From Wikipedia 2100)

Prime Minister of United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland (including Scotland until 2014) from 2010 to 2017. Widely seen equally the catalyst behind the renewed decline of the UK, subsequently a brief divulge inwards the thirty years previously (see entries for Margaret Thatcher in addition to Gordon Brown). On becoming Prime Minister inwards 2010, embarked on a financial austerity programme which delayed a recovery from the Great Recession until 2013, accelerated the privatisation of world services in addition to encouraged social hostility to immigration in addition to the poor.

This proved to survive a decisive constituent inwards Scotland narrowly voting Yes to independence inwards 2014. (The other was his determination non to permit a 3rd selection for greater devolution.) His direction was in addition to thence bogged downwardly inwards negotiations alongside Scotland for the adjacent ii years, which caused increasing bitterness betwixt the ii countries. In the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland election of 2015 the SNP captured many Scottish Labour seats, exactly refused to cast a coalition authorities alongside Labour, allowing Cameron to top away along to Pb a minority authorities alongside tacit back upwardly from the LibDems in addition to (initially) UKIP.

Most analysts naturally quest to his hope of a plebiscite on European Union membership equally his biggest mistake. In the curt term this meant that UKIP’s success inwards the 2015 election was equally much at the expense of Labour equally his ain party. But his determination to recommend voting Yes to continued membership inwards the European Union plebiscite inwards 2017 led to an endeavour to unseat him equally leader which narrowly failed (see entry on Boris Johnson), in addition to and thence large scale defections of MPs from his political party to UKIP. Campaigning nether the slogan ‘If Scotland tin sack produce it, thence tin sack we’, in addition to alongside the back upwardly of large sections of the press, UKIP leader Nigel Farage achieved a really narrow bulk to leave of absence the EU, forcing Cameron to resign. Some debate that the Scottish independence determination was critical here, equally he would scream for maintain won the plebiscite vote if Scotland had stayed business office of the UK. H5N1 few debate that the determination to interruption upwardly the BBC in addition to permit partisan broadcasting, in addition to inwards item the rebranding of ITV into FOX-UK, was a to a greater extent than of import constituent inwards losing the European Union vote.

There is or thence dispute equally to how much Cameron himself is to blame for these events, or how much was the operate of his Chancellor (and his successor equally Prime Minister) George Osborne. There likewise remains or thence argument over whether the inability of the economic scheme to build upwardly the Earth it lost during the recession was due to the initial austerity plan, renewed austerity subsequently 2015, controls on immigration or the dubiety created past times the plebiscite itself in addition to subsequent European Union exit.

It is a corking irony that the solely leader of this flow whose electrical flow reputation is lower than Cameron’s is his opponent inwards the Scottish independence debate Alex Salmond, instantly widely known inwards Scotland equally the Great Deceiver. Scotland’s ain economical decline next independence was far greater, next a collapse inwards fossil oil prices in addition to the loss inwards United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland markets when Scotland joined the EU.