Better than Miliband is as fine a demonstration of the soft bigotry of low expectations as you possibly hope to find. Nevertheless, David Cameron’s speech to the Tory conference today was better than Miliband’s chat in Manchester last week. Quite a lot better, in fact. It was almost, gosh, good.
True, it’s not altogether clear how the promised tax cuts – for ordinary and less ordinary hard workers alike – will actually be paid for and, in the context of speech that promised no unfunded tax cuts, this might ordinarily be seen as a small problem. Presumably they will be back-loaded to come into force once the national accounts are balanced in 2018. If they are balanced by 2018, that is. Which they very well might not be.
Still, having been critical of Cameron yesterday it would be churlish to deny the fact that this was not a bad speech at all.
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