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Party Conferences 2008

Yesterday I teased you with some political hairviews, and asked who they were.

Here are the answers (click through on the title).

I’ve turned my Recess Monkey Cameron Gotcha post into a game of “spot the political hairdo“.

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What makes Cameron tick? Last week I looked at the vision and values of Gordon Browns speech, now its ‘Dave’s turn. Except this was more grave than Dave. When Nick Clegg compared David Cameron to an Andrex puppy, he was partly right. Camerons speech to the Tory conference was certainly very long (65 minutes), but it certainly wasn’t soft.

(Full text of the speech is here, quotes below are in italics. )

Strangely, in pragmatic political times, we’ve had two strong ‘values’ speeches. Brown was heavy on duty, service, and especially ‘fairness’. Cameron was even more explicit:

(people) want to know whether our politics, and let’s be frank, whether our politicians - are up to it. In the end, that’s not really about your policies and your plans. Of course your plans are important… so people want to know what values you bring to big situations and big decisions that can crop up on your watch.

and so he told us. There were some clear inconsistencies between his stated values, and what he actually proposed to do, but we’ll come to that later. First I’ll have a look at the values he highlighted.

Gossip time.

Enemy Infiltration. Demon Eyes.

Corker.

Presumably David Cameron will now have heard of A Hilton Esq for perhaps the first time.

Political Hairdo Lotto

In DC’s defence, slightly bouffant hairdos of short-people at eye-level can make candidates eminently forgettable. For example, the selection below the fold.

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