Posted by: Iain Fisher
« on: July 04, 2008, 10:22:18 PM »The First post of 3 July 2008 has an article on Berkoff meeting Conservative leader David Cameron
www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,1124,berkoff-dotes-on-lsquoelegant-cameron,33760
Steven seems to be continuing his swing to the right, a long way from the angry Berkoff who wrote Sink the Belgrano! .
Sad.
Iain
www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,1124,berkoff-dotes-on-lsquoelegant-cameron,33760
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... Steven Berkoff... has offered his wholehearted support for the Tory leader David Cameron in a sycophantic, almost nausea-inducing article in this week's Spectator. "I have admired him greatly since he made one of the most outstanding speeches to the nation that I have ever heard from the mouth of a politician," he writes, before revealing his first encounter with Cameron was at a party thrown by the Spectator.
"He looks a model of composure, cool elegant and relaxed and is accompanied by his lovely wife, no doubt freshly exhilarated after his weekly thrashing of Gordon Brown's ample backside. I introduce myself – 'I am Steven B…', but he cuts me off and gallantly fibs, 'Of course I know who you are.' Oh, how charming he is… I then deliver my oratorio briefly summing up my admiration for the now famous speech and how as an actor I could admire it all the more for the delivery."
Berkoff goes on: "He seemed to accept my slightly oily hyperboles with gracious charm and confessed to me that during his turbulent youth he had even entertained the idea of trying for the acting profession. Pride now puffed into my cheeks - Mr Cameron even had the manners to enquire what I was up to. I was glad to meet old friends and even make a new one who will be, barring accidents, the next prime minister of the country."
Steven seems to be continuing his swing to the right, a long way from the angry Berkoff who wrote Sink the Belgrano! .
Sad.
Iain