Exegesis of that speech

Timothy Garton Ash of The Guardian analyses the Cameron oratory:

"Take that inspiring Conservative party conference speech with which David Cameron launched himself like a rocket from Cape Canaveral. I've spent a fair bit of time over the past few years reading Blair speeches. They have an unmistakeable look on the page:
Very short sentences.
Large gaps between each line.
I care passionately about this. We must do that.
Self-deprecating joke. Guy-on-the-street anecdote.
List of past failures. Visions of future success! Sentences without verbs.
Now I download Cameron's conference speech from his zippy website and, yes, it's a Blair. It has exactly the same look on the page, the same syntax of exhortation. Cameron speaks like a thoroughly modern private school headmaster, giving the boys a pep talk. Like Blair, he's not afraid of the word "I", nor of going over the top in missionary mode: "I love my country. I love our character. I love our people, our history, our role in the world." He, too, can make the higher nonsense sound like sense: "The Conservative party is the only party that wants everybody to be somebody, a doer not a done-for." Hang on, so who exactly do Labour and the Lib Dems want to be a nobody? Never mind, it makes the audience feel good, a purpose he frankly confesses two sentences later: "I want people to feel good about being a Conservative again."
Then there's the characteristic Blair shock-list of statistics: "When one fifth of children leave primary school unable to write properly. When 1 million schoolchildren play truant each year." And so on. The verb-to-sentence ratio is slightly higher than in early Blair, but here again are the verbless wonders. "To give choice to parents. Freedom to schools." This follows a passage about raising standards of literacy. (New Tories, new grammar: "No, Belinda, a sentence does not need to have a subject, a verb and an object. A sentence needs a subject, an object and a spin.") And his heart bleeds on his sleeve for Darfur and sub-Saharan Africa. At the end comes the rebranding: Modern Compassionate Conservatism, all with initial capitals. Or MCC for short."

I don't think that I can tolerate another ten years of linguistic abuse. And where is the substance? But can anything stop the rise and rise of Mr Cameron?