Tinfoil hat stand doing a roaring trade

In spite of the rapturous ovation received by IDS for his speech yesterday, we at Westmonster remain rather perplexed by some of what he had to say.

Apparently, the reason Gord wants to go to the polls is to destroy the Conservative Party, along with cute puppies, fluffy things and what makes Britain great:

Last week at that conference, do you know what they were doing off the platform all week? They were saying that they wanted a general election. Do you know why they said they want an election - surprise, surprise - because they said they believe they can win it. Do you know why they said they wanted to win it? Because they wanted to destroy the Tory party once and for all. Why? The difference between us (the Conservatives) and the Labour party is this: they want power to destroy us. We must want power to rebuild Britain and to care for British people.

Seeing as the Conservatives spent the first month of the Broon's premiership briefing any journo who couldn't run away fast enough that Brown should call an election, it now seems slightly hypocritical to start squealing that it's awfully unfair that he might do just that. Could it be because, er, they "believe[d] they could win it" at that stage? Perish the ruddy thought.

On top of that, there's a further bit of "pot, kettle" business going on here. Comrade Thatch managed to do a bit of very cheeky post-Falklands electioneering in 1983 without any audible howls of rage from CCHQ, and that was taking advantage of a polling lead following a war rather than a decent showing at Conference.

Finally why was IDS' address yesterday, at which there was not a dry eye left in the house, not linked to by the Conservatives' conference website. Cock up or conspiracy? Paging Mr al Fayed!

UPDATE: The Tories have finally put up video of IDS' speech, with an accompanying story. But the Conservatives' website still doesn't list a single IDS speech transcript any more recent than November 2003. Looks like old Iain finally may have found the relevance he sought as leader, sadly it's 4 years too late.

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 3 Oct 2007 10:51 AM. Permalink