Red Rag - The entire Tory election campaign has been an ever developing car crash. Policy announcements fluffed, figures quoted wrong, electoral pictures being turned on them and having the urine extracted out of them. Their poll lead seems to fall every other day, it has been a disastrous few months for the Tories. If ever there was a time for Cameron to make the speech of his life this was it. The momentum is running against them, the press constant attack of Brown is doing the opposite of what they and the press want it to do, Brown is getting more popular. Everything they do turns to Osborne, so a brilliant speech was needed. A speech to define Cameron as a PM in waiting, a man of substance, a man not what he has been accused of as all PR and no policy, a speech to show that he is a serious politician.....so who the fuck put in the line "Gordon Brown says I'm a bit of a salesman.I plead guilty".
This line was so bad you could be mistaken that it had been planted in there by a Labour campaign manager. Cameron's achilles heel has been the fact he sounds too salesman like. He has fought this allegation off since he became leader of the Tory Party, now in his biggest speech of his political life, he is now saying they were right all along. He sounds when he speaks to me like a Bentley salesman, oozing confidence bordering on arrogance, not just any salesman...a Bentley salesman. There was very little on the economy, but there was some fantastic chest beating patriotism, because now we know patriots can only vote Tory now.In fact the speech was policy anorexic, with hardly any policies of such explained or mentioned.For the rest of the speech he kept attacking Brown, then threw in a line about immigration for the right of his party and blabbed on in salesman speak about "new economic management", "open for business" and "we are like you, we are with you".
So we are more or less where we were 24 hours ago, most people do not have the vaguest idea of what Cameron actually stands for policy wise, but we do now know, if we didn't know before hand, that he is a self admitted Salesman, and with one line in this speech has given the Labour Campaign runners the biggest attack line between now and the election.
According to the right wing press this was a fantastic speech, a brilliant speech, a speech for the next PM......as far as I'm concerned a few more speeches like that and a Labour lead will not be far off.
Who wants a salesman as Prime Minister?
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