Things that are completely wrong

(according to David Cameron)

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Conclusion that British military are not capable of intervening successfully around the world

“Third, it would be completely wrong to conclude that our military are not capable of intervening successfully around the world.”

Statement on the Iraq Inquiry, 6/7/16

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Suggestion that Blairmore Holdings was set up to avoid tax

The Prime Minister's contention is that Blairmore Holdings was set up in the Bahamas to enable people to buy "dollar-denominated companies" and shares.

It is, he says, "completely wrong" to suggest that it was set up to avoid tax and those that are doing so are dragging his father's name through the mud.

Telegraph, 8/4/16

(See also: Jimmy Carr’s tax avoidance)

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Giving government jobs in exchange for party donations

Mr Cameron said it would be “completely wrong” for anyone to get a Government job on the basis of being a donor.

Western Morning News, 4/10/15

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Russia’s veto of UN MH17 tribunal

Speaking in Vietnam, the latest leg of his trip to south-east Asia, Cameron responded to the Russian veto of the resolution saying: “I think it is infuriating and completely wrong.”

Guardian, 30/7/15

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George Galloway

TOPPLED Bradford MP George Galloway had the “unique distinction of always speaking with immense power, but always being completely wrong”, David Cameron said today.

Yorkshire Post, 10/6/15

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“Drawing equivalence” between Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Hamas’ attacks on Israel

"As PM, putting yourself in the shoes of the Israeli people, who want peace but have to put up with these indiscriminate attacks - that reinforces to me the importance of standing by Israel and Israel’s right to defend itself. “I feel very strongly that this equivalence that sometimes people try to draw when these attacks take place is so completely wrong and unfair.”

Independent, 28/4/15

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Claims of BBC bias over the Scottish referendum

But the Prime Minister said: “We all have our disagreements with the BBC from time to time but the idea that it was biased over the referendum I think is completely wrong.”

The Scotsman, 8/4/15

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Blaming Jewish people for Israeli government policies

I start from the position that it is unfair and wrong to lay at the door of Jewish communities in Europe the policies pursued by the government of Israel that people might not agree with—it’s completely wrong.

The Atlantic, 17/4/15

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Something Nick Clegg said about the schools budget

An exasperated Cameron turned on his deputy to say: “That’s completely wrong. We’ve got £7bn for new primary school places. I have to say, you know – with Nick Clegg, we sat in the cabinet room together, we took difficult decisions together. Nick, I defend all of the decisions we took, and I think your sort of pick and mix approach really is not going to convince anyone.”

The Guardian, 3/4/15

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Nigel Farage’s comments on race

UK prime minister David Cameron said Farage’s comments were ‘completely wrong and frankly pretty appalling’.

Spiked, 20/3/15

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That thing about if you're not a socialist at 20, you haven't got a heart, etc

"I've always found it rather insulting, this idea that if you're not a socialist at the age of 20 you haven't got a heart and if you're not a Conservative after the age of 40 you haven't got a head," he said, during a visit to AQL, a software company in Leeds. "I've always found that completely wrong, because actually Conservative principles - making sure you back families and make a strong society... if you do these things, you're actually more effective at tackling poverty and deprivation."

Telegraph, 5/2/15

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The proposed ambulance strike

But let me say I hope there’s something which all sides of the House can unite over, which is it would be completely wrong for the ambulance strike that is proposed to go ahead next week.

Telegraph, 21/1/15

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Something about protecting the streets of Britain

"It would be completely wrong to think that we could entirely subcontract the task of protecting the streets of Britain to the air forces of our allies."

(BBC News, 10/11/14)

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Ed Miliband, on EU reform proposals

The Prime Minister argued that Miliband was "completely wrong" and claimed that the German leader had acknowledged that there were problems with the free movement of people principle in the EU that "need to be dealt with".

(International Business Times, 5/11/14)

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Military targeting of civilians

International law is clear that it’s completely wrong and illegal to target civilians – if that’s what’s happened – and I think, as I said, the UN is right to speak out in the way it has.

(Independent, 6/8/14)

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Dennis Skinner's view of the NHS

Nurses have lost a considerable amount in real pay and casualty departments are bursting at the seams, Dennis Skinner has told the House of Commons. [...]

But David Cameron said that image was completely wrong and the government was meeting its targets.

(BBC, 2/7/14)

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Abandoning his position on the presidency of the European Commission

Mr Cameron said there was an "important principle at stake" about the way senior appointments in Brussels were made and it would be "completely wrong" for him to abandon his position.

(Telegraph, 17/6/14)