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Laurence Hodge: Cameron the Tergiversator. Freed from coalition he still forswears Conservatism
By
Laurence Hodge
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June 2, 2015
Tucked away in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary are words almost without number that exist in peaceful obscurity until beckoned forth once in a while for a cameo appearance by some Call My Bluff researcher.
‘Tergiversation’ is one such word that deserves to be called out of retirement and put into daily use. The OED traces the word back to the late 16th century, which just goes to show that there is nothing new under the sun, though things have gone a bit quiet with it since the late 19th. Until today. ‘Tergiversation’ is the action of turning one’s back, the desertion or abandonment of a cause or party and the tergiversator par excellence is David Cameron. The word could have been coined for him.
Those genial souls who thought that the last five years of Cameron were years in which the prime minister in a spirit of conciliation and compromise kow-towed to the Liberal Democrats need to look at the early signs from the new administration…