Soon we’ll be shipbuilding:

The Tory leader also hit out at “unsustainable” immigration-fuelled growth and the demise of manufacturing jobs.

“We’ve got to broaden our economic base to include more science, more hi-tech services, more green technologies, more engineering and more high-value manufacturing, drawing upon a much wider range of industries, markets, people, towns and cities.”

Somebody had to say it, I just can’t believe it was the leader of the Conservative Party, a man who still worships at the alter of the Scourge of the Miners.

I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need to repent. I just wonder how the miners, dockers and steelworkers who were tossed away by the Tories, like so many champagne corks and protestations of compassion, in favour of merchant bankers, hedge-funders, and other smoke and mirror salesmen are feeling after hearing Dave launch his plan.

(Alex has more. I wouldn’t recommend reading the whole speech. It’s a bit like John Fowles’ The Magus - much less profound than it thinks it is and you’ll hate yourself when you get to the end.)