He mentioned the long-term unemployed and said he planned to spend money helping them.
Applause that would traditionally be emptied in sacks from the ceiling gave new emphasis to the word “desultory” as Dave looked like he wanted to be somewhere else and his listeners agreed. Sam Cam sat in an aisle seat with all the look of someone intent on a quick exit if the matrons alongside started to dig out their knitting. He picked up a bit of support here and there with ritual mentions of the hate groups, but you could tell his heart was not in it. In times passed, a substantial bashing of Labour, denunciation of the unions, a bit of law and and order and a pop at the judges would have been enough to get them going in the aisles.īut like we said of his best friend George Osborne on Monday, it looked as if he, too, couldn’t be arsed. For one normally so deft at crowd management he seemed singularly uneasy with what he had to say. Cheerleaders had tried to get the mood going with videos of Dave’s Greatest Hits as they prayed late-comers from lunch would swell the audience.īut it was obvious from the start this was not going to be the usual love-in for someone whose own side seems increasingly aware that the economic slings and arrows have hardly singled him out.
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Rapid re-writing - not to mention the extra pan-stick needed to cover this embarrassment - meant that Dave slid on to the stage to a less than full hall 30 minutes later than planned. But as he went through the morning practicing the serious face rich people use to tell the less well-off hard times are coming, the resident ordinary person employed by Tory Party Central Office warned them that lectures from the loaded sit badly with the vast mass of the less-than-lucky, and so it was out. In version one he gave the country a lecture on debt management, saying “all of us” should pay off our credit card bills. He was caught out after trying for two bites of the speech cherry, releasing choice morsels to the press in advance of his delivery. Thanks to the Greeks he can’t blame the Scottish Sulk anymore, and as for Ed M, even some of Dave’s own side say the Labour leader is coming up with a better message - although, luckily for the PM, delivering it almost incomprehensibly.īut incomprehension seemed to be the order of the day when even the Great Communicator found himself off-message. She always told them it was everyone else’s fault, but Dave is finding that a bit of a hard sell in the worst economic crisis for 80 years.
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