David Cameron's Big Conference Speech

[HATS ARE BORING]

Heads up if you are interested that Cameron's speech is starting shortly. I'll be pretending to work with it on the iphone on 5 live, some comments from Matthew Parris who is always interesting.

Not expecting it to set the world on fire to be honest, but let's see!

[V88Dicky]

Placing bets as to how many times he can mention 'Low carbon economy'

[gtdc]

I'm interested. How long before the BBC start laying into it?

[HATS ARE BORING]

V88Dicky said:

Placing bets as to how many times he can mention 'Low carbon economy'

It was good to hear George start to kick this into the long grass though on Monday!

[chris watton]

Empty words - nothing more, nothing less.

[HATS ARE BORING]

Good line: "We don’t boo our leaders. We’re proud of our past and what those people did for our country."

[eharding]

HATS ARE BORING said:

Good line: "We don’t boo our leaders. We’re proud of our past and what those people did for our country."

Did you have a sneezing fit while you were typing that?

[CoolC]

TBH I'm expecting lots of words but with nothing being said.

[HATS ARE BORING]

eharding said:

Did you have a sneezing fit while you were typing that?

No idea it looks like it though!

[anonymous-user]

V88Dicky said:

Placing bets as to how many times he can mention 'Low carbon economy'

You'll have lost your money then.

[gtdc]

HATS ARE BORING said:

Good line: "We don’t boo our leaders. We’re proud of our past and what those people did for our country."

I liked that.

[elster]

CoolC said:

TBH I'm expecting lots of words but with nothing being said.

Yup, which is why I headed home instead of staying.

[bobbylondonuk]

if these guys manage to turn the crap around...there will be a new phrase.

you cant trust labour with the economy!

[HATS ARE BORING]

I think it was, overall, a good speech. Little was controversial, he sounded like a PM in contrast to Ed last week who sounded like a student. Good to hear the Tories are sticking to the line that debt and spending are the problems and private business the solution. It remains to be seen how this will extend to helping businesses on the ground though.

[Elroy Blue]

He's a Politician. Soundbites and nonsense written by a faceless speech writer.

[turbobloke]

Elroy Blue said:

He's a Politician. Soundbites and nonsense written by a faceless speech writer.

The soundbites and nonsense probably came at least in part from Steve Hilton. Not as many as previously, maybe, because the 'soft' areas favoured by Hilton as a strategist weren't particularly evident.

Then again, you wouldn't want to overwork your £275k p.a. strategy director who may well still be living with his squeeze who got a job working for Google in sunny California. From which location and with an internet connection a conference speech would be easy meat.

Here's his face



As of July this year: "Earlier this week, The Daily Telegraph disclosed there was growing impatience among Downing Street aides at the apparent failure of the Treasury to develop creative policies to boost Britain's lacklustre economy. Mr Hilton is now understood to be playing a leading role trying to develop radical policies to help business and boost employment."

Yay we're saved

Soundbite or not I liked the 'not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog' line. Probably borrowed from Blunkett.

[JagLover]

gtdc said:

I'm interested. How long before the BBC start laying into it?

Apparently the key point of this speech (per the BBC) is Cameron's not particularly controversial call for people to pay down their debt. According to the BBC this shows how out of touch Cameron is with the working classes (a familiar theme for them).

Edited by JagLover on Wednesday 5th October 18:57

[turbobloke]

JagLover said:

gtdc said:

I'm interested. How long before the BBC start laying into it?

Apparently the key point of this speech (per the BBC) is Cameron's not particularly controversial call for people to pay down their debt. Axccording to the BBC this shows how out of touch Cameron is with the working classes (a familiar theme for them).

Good job the BBC aren't biased to the left

[Marf]

JagLover said:

Apparently the key point of this speech (per the BBC) is Cameron's not particularly controversial call for people to pay down their debt. According to the BBC this shows how out of touch Cameron is with the working classes (a familiar theme for them).

The bare cheek of it! How dare he suggest such eminently sensible advice, the utter utter b'stard!

[HATS ARE BORING]

Instead of suggesting paying down debt, he should have told them to "RING 0800-CAMERON AND WE CAN WRITE DOWN 90% OF YOUR DEBT: CALL NOW!" The eventual solution of the Labour approach.