Mr Cameron are you setting a good example to our children?

Here is the text of a letter I have just sent to David Cameron, leader of the Tory Party.

Dear Mr Cameron,

Whatever my opinion of the way in which our Prime Minister has behaved of late, don't you think that your own behaviour is a disgrace and setting an appalling example to the youth of this country?

I saw your performance at PMQs the other day and I left it far from thinking that you had wiped the floor with the Prime Minister but that you had demeaned yourself. Your language and the way in which you used it added nothing to the debate on the economy, the state of politics in this country or indeed to any reasonable aspect of life in Britain today.

Appearing to be angry and in the right is all an act of course; but your aim is clear: to launch and attack and to appear to be the stronger of the two. You behaved like a bully: a common or garden school ground bully.

I have read that article of yours in the Sunday Times of 7th October 2007 and was saddened that they wasted so many trees and so much of a carbon footprint in printing it. It was a complete waste of time. Why not write something substantive instead?

I would far rather see you asking the Prime Minister about specific issues and specific policies. You know better than I do that what has happened in political terms over the last month or so has been nothing more than unadulterated Party Politics. You have played your part in that charade and the British people were sickened by it. No one I know has come away from the last few weeks feeling happy with what you in Westminster have been doing. It's a disgrace.

Yours sincerely

DW