Ministry for Madness

The quacks rush in

freud.jpgWhilst much has been made of Dave delivering his speech with just a couple of jottings as a prompt, we at Westmonster remain unconvinced by some of the subsequent praise heaped on this latter day Disraeli by the chatterati.

Firstly, at least one of us at Westmonster has been the victim beneficiary of an Oxbridge education (there goes the working-class street cred) and knows for a fact that teaching how to speak without notes is what these august institutions specialise in. Lots of posh boys - always with the boys - with names like "Rupert" can opt to spend three years learning how to enunciate like what they do in the House of Commons, until the smallest of talk with these individuals is like being hectored by Alan Clark, which is immensely wearying. Speaking "off the cuff" isn't particularly difficult if you've been taught how to do it, and proves very useful to the likes of Rupert when he goes for selection for the pater's old seat.

Secondly, does anybody actually believe that Cameron just happened to leave his prompt cards lying around? "Oh cripes, George, you'll never guess, I've only gone and left my pissing notebook in the middle of the pissing press room under the noses of a couple of friendly journalists with a sticky-note saying 'I wonder what a writing expert would make of this? Eh? Eh?' Oh woe. What shall I do."

Naturally, the papers are already full of analysis of Cameron's character based on his script. Apparently, his bullet points on economic regeneration can tell us everything about him, from whether he likes his eggs hard or runny to how good his relationship is with his mother.

A similar study was done on the Gord's writing last November, when he chucked his Order Paper across the dispatch box at George Osborne. An entirely reliable report was done on his writing by a psychologist employed by the Opposition, who concluded that Brown smelt, liked torching cute puppies, and because he underlined something, was probably a psychopath.

We're not saying it wasn't a good speech, but the smell in the Westmonster nostrils at this piece of evidence that "proves" that Dave is a jolly good chap who should be the Prime Minister is very similar to that which can be experienced when walking through a field of male cows. If you get our drift.

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