Well, what are we left with?
3 October 2013
The Party Conferences are over, well the important ones anyway, the Leaders have made their speeches so what are we left with....
The Party Conferences are over, well the important ones anyway, the Leaders have made their speeches so what are we left with....
Cleggy's speech was what you can always expect from a LimpDem. A naked play to be the perpetual all-powerful arbiter of who gets into government in the the hung parliaments that he hopes for. A pitch based on what he has said no to.... Not exactly an inspiring message.
Millminor's lurche to the left and back to the past was more about pleasing the Labour left and the Unions than speaking to the country. A re-tread of old 70's ideas that failed then and would fail again. Yes, he would take us back to pay and prices policies leaving us with 70's style power blackouts and Union beer and nibbles in no10. His was an appeal to the lowest common denominator of unthinking stupidity among the electorate. True - that does make up a significant proportion of the voters with most of them Labour voters anyway.... We should be thankful to him though, at least given us a clear choice and raised the stakes in the election. We must hope that his Michael Foot era programme has the same fate as Michael Foot's....
Then we come to Cameron. Because of Milliminor a lot more will be riding on the result of the next election. Cameron must not just win, he needs to get an overall majority doing something unprecedented, increasing the vote of the main governing Party. Even Mrs T did not manage that in her 1983 and 1987 victories. This country cannot afford the insanity of a Milliminor government and the good news is that Cameron has been given plenty of targets to shoot at when the election comes.
But in his speech Cameron kept most of his powder dry taking just a few well aimed pot-shots at Labour and was without a mention of Cleggy. He focused on speaking to the country, not just Party. In doing so he was able to satisfy both we on the traditional right and the so called 'modernisers'. His speech was short on new policy announcements and got bogged down in places but it was a well balanced speech offering a vision and a positive tone. It was the best speech of the three leaders though certainly was not a classic Conference speech. It may have been all the better for that.
The battle lines for 2015 are being drawn and what a battle it will be. I am really looking forward to that!
- maybe the answer lies here barry.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-out-touch-private-2332822 - The Mirror -ummmm fish and chip paper
- along with the broad sheets,the current bun and the uk hating daily mail.
- Supermarket 'value' bread is non-nutritious to the point of being toxic waste. All credit to him for not giving it to his children.
- Barry what we are left with is the unedifying sight of plebs like Alistair Campbell, of all people (to be kind) jumping aboard the faux outrage of hurt feelings by ed miliband. I don't think there was one shred of emotion from miliband following the mail piece but he is merely using this to try to show how he is standing up to "the man".
Made me laugh when potty campbell has the balls to go on the airwaves pontificating about how awful things are when the nasty little pwess say nasty fings about my fwiends.
As for posting up Paul Dacre's address on twitter - hmmmn, typical tactic of the left. - Much will depend on how the Government (majority Conservative) manages the coming influx of Romanians and Bulgarians.
If hundreds of thousands come over, there will be a big crisis, with many sleeping out in parks and asking for money "to return home".
If, however, many of these did get a job, the Conservatives could forget their speeches on the 1 million unemployed youth here who they say are supposed to "get a job".
It will be either the ones or the others. Not both!
This is where David Cameron stands a very big test.
Something has to change in employment laws and in immigration (including from the EU).
And it has to happen by January 1st 2014. - Whilst at Manchester I noticed one of Mr Cameron's aide de camp's brought in a bread maker, please note it was of the electronic version lol!
As Abe Lincoln once said...
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."