I dislike David Cameron, but he was right on gay marriage

The other day, I found myself at a large event in a posh garden where David Cameron was present. Being a polite sort of person, he smiled and mouthed some sort of greeting as we passed. And being an impolite sort of person, I ignored him and walked on.

When someone asked me why I’d been so rude, I explained that I was just being consistent. I’ve been very rude about Cameron in print over several years, so wouldn’t it be a bit hypocritical – craven, even – to be all smiley and polite in person?

My rudeness has taken many forms and has several causes. I thought that Cameron’s near-immediate desertion of his post after the Brexit referendum was irresponsibility on a historic scale, especially given his refusal to allow the civil service to prepare for the possibility of a Leave vote.

I thought the referendum itself was the product of Cameron’s hopeless and spineless management of his party dating back to his daft 2005 promise to pull the Tories out of the European People’s party bloc in the European parliament.