Labour's Sadiq Khan accused Cameron of "writing propaganda for the EDL", but much of the ground for Cameron's neocon turn was laid by Tony Blair and New Labour – and politicians such as Phil Woolas, who unsuccessfully tried to play the Islamophobic card to save his skin.
The practical policy consequences of Cameron's neocon turn may be modest.
The prime minister's views about what senior government officials have described as Fox's "neocon" agenda and what it says about the defence secretary's judgment will determine his future, according to the prevailing Whitehall view.
They are, in the argot of right-wing theology, paleocon rather than neocon.
Nuland is most famous for her recently leaked phone conversation about micromanaging regime change in Ukraine, in which she declared 'fuck the EU.' Her husband is neocon Robert Kagan, who was co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, the ideological parent of the Bush/Blair war on Iraq.
Another neocon, Eliot Cohen, a professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, has a fine rejoinder for Mr Perle.Being neither Republican nor Democrat, and thinking the government's conduct of the Iraq war an entirely appropriate subject of political debate I do not think anyone should have kept mum in an interview of this kind until an election had passed.
SO, after Donald Rumsfeld, another neocon hero bites the dust.
Gary Schmitt, a fellow neocon, complained of Mr Feith that he "can't manage anything, and he doesn't trust anyone else's judgment".
Once it connoted curry and the Notting Hill carnival; these days, when applied to British politicians or their policies, "multiculturalist" is almost as derogatory a term as "socialist" or "neocon".
