29 August 2008

No we can't?

It was an occasion, certainly. (Can you imagine Mr Cameron or Mr Brown attracting 80,000 people to Wembley or Hampden? Even if Sheryl Crow was doing the warm-up?)

A bit too glitzy for my taste, but Americans seem to like that stuff. And our politicians can only dream of being allowed to produce a stream of uncosted pledges which would simultaneously deliver tax cuts and increased public spending. Nevertheless, I cannot deny that it was thoughtfully put together and beautifully delivered.

You may read the text of his speech here.

1 comment:

Calum Cashley said...

Well, to be fair, the population of the US of A is 303 million and the population of the UK is 60 million, so they'd only need to bring in a fifth - a mere 16,000 ...

Or in Scotland with a population of 5 million, one sixtieth of the US total - 1,333 - about the size of an SNP conference ...