sep 28th 2006 -

Contrary to the widespread praise that was heaped on our beloved leader following his barnstorming speech at the Labour Party Conference, we just don't get it.

Fine words full of confidence and emotion. This time Blair actually outdid himself with the most accomplished bit of ham acting I have ever seen. Complete with perfectly timed pause for effect and interspersed with added emotional voice quiver it left the crowd in rapture and demanding more. Me, I just reached for the sick bucket.

How many times over the past 12 years have the Labour Party heard him recite exactly the same lines and yet again they lapped up every minute of it and fell for the same old routine. They are obviously intelligent people but this man comes along with yet another speech about justice and opportunity for all, a brighter, better future for everyone, his voice rising to a triumphant crescendo and everyone seems to forget that he has been in office for nigh on 10 years. They forget the slaughter in Iraq and the lies that took us there and they forget that we live in a country where the politicians fall over themselves to be seen as being ethnic friendly while there are working class English people who feel utterly, utterly abandoned.

Those silly people, wiping tears away from their eyes were cheering a man who could speak all day without actually telling us anything. How can they not see it? Is it not all wearing a bit thin? Have we not had enough of politicians barrister-speak, these stupid men in suits who have an answer for everything and a solution to nothing?

Watching the Labour Party Conference gave me a stark reminder that Adolf Hitler got voted into power. It goes to show that you can be a fine speaker, you can hold the audience in the palm of your hand, but in the end it means absolutely nothing....TC