Cameron speech: quick facetius response

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"We’ve had a good conference this week, an optimistic conference - but a sober one."

Obviously you weren't there when all the Tories were all chucked out of the hotel the bar at 4pm by the police last night.

"[This] human rights act culture, has infected every part of our life."

Yep, there's the true colours.

"And while we’re on this subject, there’s one other thing that destroys trust in politics. And that’s parties putting things in their manifesto and then doing the complete opposite."

Is that why you haven't announced any clear policy commitments?

"Next year [...] we will campaign with all our energy for that referendum on the European constitution that Labour promised but never delivered"

A breakthrough! A policy! Confirmed over the conference for the first time categorically! But the treaty isn't going to happen now. Ah... so you'd prefer to announce binding policies after there is absolutely no chance you'll have to implement them!

"For Labour there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance. You cannot run our country like this."

Yes you do see charities, faith communities, friends and families. You see them, and you mention them, because you will milk them dry asking them to perform functions of the state with less accountability (or "responsibility," you're key word of the conference) and fewer funds.

And by the way, "no such thing as society", congratulations, that is probably the most hilarious reading of a Thatcher quote in any political speech.

Well as you might have guessed I thought some of it paper thin.

I liked how again and again he turned Jo Biden's repetitive mantra of "That's not change, that's more of the same" on its head to form "it’s not more of the same we need, but change".

And some politicians are attacked for ripping of other politicians' speeches...

Oh and Dave, good job on the jokes. The one that got the biggest laugh was about suicide.