I read CaMoron’s speech last night, while I was eating dinner. I tried to read it with an open mind, honest, but the more I read the angrier I got. I don’t think I ever read a bigger piece of nonsense; no, scrap that – it can only be nonsense if it actually has substance. This was mostly rhetoric based on a few simplistic ideas.

For a start, it was built up of short sound bytes, like this.

For another, blaming brown for this current economic crisis is a clear sign that the guy’s a moron. If the Tories hadn’t screwed the banking system up in the nineties we would not be in this mess. And to criticise brown for founding a decade of prosperity on ‘borrowing’ is a clear sign that these are no more than the ravings of an idiot. Brown saved us from the economic doom and gloom major left us in. for CaMoron to then praise Thatcher as some kind of hero when she destroyed the livelihoods of so many people is, frankly, despicable.

He attacks the ‘short term initiatives’ and what he calls the beurocracy without understanding that we need the testing and the safeguards to ensure that nothing goes wrong. We need the paperwork; we need standardisation. He is clearly trying to appeal to those people bored of filling in forms.

And as for character and judgement mattering more than experience – give me strength. He only says that because he thinks he has character and judgement, as everyone knows he lacks experience. Well, his judgement is clearly flawed, and his character is so vapid, shallow and cloying it makes me want to vomit. Either way, he’s wrong – tried and tested and proven experience is what matters, unlike in 97.

I could go on, I could go through this speech line by line and tear it to pieces. I could spend pages just explaining why claiming that society is somehow broken represents a level of arrogance that makes me want to tear the guy’s head off. I mean, just because society no longer conforms to your narrow-minded, illiberal and paternalistic view of how it should be doesn’t mean it’s broken. But I have work to do and things to read. If you have time the speech can be found here.