After his atrociously banal speech at last Sunday’s Tory spring conference in wet and windswept Brighton, there’s been an interesting thread over on Letters from a Tory:
http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2010/03/01/does-cameron-want-all-eyes-on-browns-chilcot-appearance/
My comments are reposted below:
Dave’s conference performance was cringe inducing.
Did nobody else have a Neil Kinnock ‘Sheffield Rally’ moment when he starting shouting at the end ‘lets win it for Britain’? Grim. Really, really depressing.
A sad end to a limp speech.
and:
The Daily Mash has almost stopped being satire. I just don’t know what to make of the tragic convergence of surrealist satire and reality.
and:
Maybe, Julia, but think about this:
We’ve had just 2 governments in 31 years. If Labour win, that becomes 2 in 36 years.
Are we *really* better off for that stagnation stability? For allowing politicians of any party to grow to believe that they are born to rule? That MP stands for Master of the People and not Member of Parliament?
and:
@ JohnRS Well done, Dave.
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It’s not really his fault.
He’s as trapped in the unrepresentative, byzantine, two party system like the rest of us. Economically, he has more in common, it seems, with Frank Field than with, say, John Redwood. So he has to play his role – the problem is that Labour and Conservative are both occupying the same space: paternalist-authoritarians with a broadly laissez faire economic instinct in terms of big money and the city, if not the little man at the betting shop. So the argument is about how *much* to harass and intimidate smokers, how *best* to discourage drinking or drug taking, *what* paperwork to fill out to run a business. It’s about blue or red degrees on a single homogeneous spectrum.
I should add that I am becoming increasingly disillusioned and that I’ll in no way be voting for Brown & Co!.
Fun fun.
Do read the whole thing as it’s quite entertaining down in the gutter with the other comments!
OH YES:
It’s iDave, rather than CallMeDave or DC because, unfortunately, David Cameron is a bit like an iPod. Nice device, well designed with a decent operating system but in the end, you *know* it’s going to cost you money and tie you to a single provider with messianic tendencies.
