Monday, 1 March 2010

Sunday, 28th February 2010

Blue Obama-lite

10:55pm


So it was delivered without notes. So what?

Why does a feat of technical virtuosity become an election-winner? Why does the manner of delivery become The Story for the media? Isn’t the message more important than the memory?

David Cameron’s strategy is fundamentally and, we can now see, finally and irrevocably flawed. His message, as defiantly and unequivocally re-stated today, is one of radical change. The key question this provokes, however, ischange from what?  

The people are indeed desperate for change – but from Gordon Brown and the Labour government and what it stands for. What Cameron defiantly and unequivocally offers is radical change from conservatism to produce an agenda that, far from promising a radical change from Labour, is merely a paler versionof Labour.

So when millions of natural conservatives yearn for a radical and unequivocal...

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