Re-branding the herd
Looks like the Tories are getting a makeover. It’ll be interesting to see a transcript of David Cameron’s conference speech to see how many times he mentioned ‘Modern Conservatives’.
(Hopefully there’ll be a transcript as Dave delivered the speech without notes or autocue in an effort to prove he’s fresh and sincere. When I was in the school play I didn’t use notes or autocue either, if you know what I mean.)
Apparently the Tories are going to take us to a ‘new world’ as well. Cameron’s said so about a dozen times. No details of where and how the huge fleet of rocket ships required to get us there will be built.
Dave’s also a little behind the times by saying the Taliban must not get back into Afghanistan - the Taliban never really went away and looks as if they might be back in government sooner rather than later.
He also seems woefully ignorant of how things work in this country when getting the long term unemployed into work. He says he wants to bring in the private and voluntary sectors without realising the private sector are already involved and, in my experience, doing a pisspoor job of it.
I’d also like to know just what the ‘voluntary sector’ means. I suspect it means people prepared to do the job for nothing but I’m willing to be set right.
More, no doubt, later…
Update: The Facebook group ‘Am I the only person who doesn’t like David Cameron?‘ has doubled its membership since he mentioned it in his speech. Nice going.
And: Talk about hedging your bets: ‘Call that election. We will fight - Britain will win.’ Hardly an equivocal rallying call, that.
And more: Transcript now up on the Tories’ website. Counts so far: ‘modern conservative’: 6, ‘new world’: 11, (’new world of freedom’: 5).
Posted on October 3rd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
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Transcript-ish:
http://davenicebutknave.blogspot.com/2007/10/that-conference-speech-in-full-again.html
I can’t figure out who’s more loathsome, New Labour who have done their best to tear out the soul of this country or the Tories who’d want to do the same but without the cuddly buzzwords. Cameron et al believe in the same things as their Imperious Overlordmistress, La Thatch, you know the whole market-forces-alchemy-panacea litany, that drivelling melange of planet-crushing greed and self-righteous arrogance. Part of me almost wants the Tories to win the next election, just so that we can all finally understand that there`s no difference between Labour and Tories.
Out there on the web, someone`s done a picture portraying the great god Cthulhu (see under Lovecraft) as a politician, with the tag line - “Vote Cthulhu - at least he admits he’s evil”. Maybe that’s one that Dave Cameron should use - ‘Vote Tory - we won’t lie about being complete bastards’.
C’mon, Rich, did you see the banner he was speaking in front of?
“Conservatives - time for a change”
Er… I thought the idea was that conservatives were supposed to be against change…
Talk about mixed messages.
Is this what you meant, Richard?
Hey hey, that’s the one, Redpesto!
On Tory-related matters, I am enormously entertained (to the point of uttering helpless guffaws) by their whining on about a referendum on further Euro-entanglement-enablement-treaty-indenture-whatever… Hmm, not such a bad idea, really (I am very pro-Europe, to the point where I`d love to live in a united Europe with a real functioning democratic system, rather than the screwed-up, bureaucratic abortion we have just now)(but nationalistic tendencies being what they are, I can’t see such Euro-harmony arising for another generation). Anyway, the point is that you don’t ever, ever, EVER hear these Tory whiners demanding a national referendum on something like, say, invading another country at the behest of the USA’s barking president.
Isn’t it funny that the Europhobes are almost always pro-Yank, White House-adoring ra-ra-ra types?
Richard, what amuses me is the idea that the Tories are going to ‘consult’ on a decision they’ve already taken (to reject the treaty). Why waste our time with a referendum if they think they can claim a ‘mandate’ from an election victory? Is it to rub the noses of the EU/pro-Europeans/Ken Clarke in it? (And just wait until they try to ratify a European treaty they do want… heh heh heh…) Oh, and they’ll also have a fun time explaining what they want from scrapping the Human Rights Act. (Will they be overruled in Europe or do they want out of the full Convention?)