Ming's speech

[matgb]

Excellent attacks on Dave and Gordon, some of the jokes a bit flat, but overall very good. policy policy policy just what's needed

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Boothroyd's being snidey as usual about it, so I guess the old man's pulled out a plum here. Got a link to a transcript?

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Ah, just found a link to it in my mailbox. Not bad at all despite the laboured Star Trek references, though I'd like a tad more on civil liberties and less on green taxes.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Up to a point... Civil liberties are good for energizing the party rank and file (which is important), but not so great for communicating with the country, IMO. Also, there are ways to go on about civil liberties without actually using those words - X million pounds on ID cards = Y thousand police officers, Z hundred intelligence researchers, that sort of thing.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

What Tez said.

[matgb]

Theme of the conference. Plus, green stuff is more 'popular', civil liberties doesn't always appeal to 'average voter'.

So a nice mix of both I thought. I'll try for a read of the transcript when I've time, but I've no doubt there will be reactions everywhere.