[Livia]

Originally Posted by Jingle Bollox

When Mandela dies, and David Cameron jumps on the Mandela bandwagon, remember that in 1985 he was a top member of the Federation of Conservative Students, which produced the "Hang Mandela" posters. In 1989, Cameron worked in the Tory Policy Unit at Central Office and went on an anti-sanctions fact-finding mission to South Africa with a pro-apartheid lobby firm sponsored by PW Botha. Remember this when he tells the world he was inspired by Madiba.

'Cameron broke with previous Conservative policy on South Africa while he was opposition leader. Returning in 2006 from a South African trip on which he met Mandela for the first time, he wrote in the Observer: "The mistakes my party made in the past with respect to relations with the ANC and sanctions on South Africa make it all the more important to listen now."'

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...nelson-mandela