That’s the political party’s annual conferences, of course.<\/p>\n
Inevitably, the media has been looking closely at the speeches made by the various party leaders. Accoring to The Telegraph,<\/a> Cameron’s much touted “without notes” speech for the Conservatives was only a last minute descision. It’s been referred to as “unscripted” in various places too – which is patently rubbish! Just watch the video<\/a> and tell me if, for one moment, you think that was a genuinely impromptu<\/em> speech! Just because the script’s not on an autocue, doesn’t mean it isn’t there!<\/p>\n I do this kind of thing for a living and I doubt I could have given that speech without some serious (and I mean serious)<\/strong> preparation. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not critisising him for what he did, far from it, just pointing out it’s not (quite) as advertised! :)<\/p>\n It’s worth taking a look at the audience reactions too. For my money, the outbreaks of applause at various ‘claptraps’<\/a> were too slow off the mark to be genuine and organic; it looks to me as though there was a sense, amongst the audience, of “We’re supposed to clap now, so we’d better”. I’m not the only one who was underwhealmed<\/a>, either!<\/p>\n