I feel guilty at rarely having anything to say about David Cameron. Shouldn't there be at least the occasional day-dream, pleasant or otherwise, about what he'd be like as prime minister? Nope. Never happens. All I know at the moment is that, for reasons I don't understand one little bit, women keep swooning over him. They wouldn't do that for David Davis. But is it enough?
Brian Jenner, alias The Speechwriter, offers some presentational advice over at ConservativeHome.com:
[W]here’s the sense of humour? Where’s the character? These Etonian smoothie-chops sound like corporate HR directors. Tories applying for their Investors in People badge.
Harsher criticism from Blair biographer John Rentoul in today's Indy [subscriber-link]. He clearly didn't like what he heard from DC on Budget Day:
His delivery was too rushed and too loud... That is, of course, just an error of technique. Practice will fix it. But it was the childishness of the content that was the real issue.
The end of the end of [sic] Punch and Judy politics has exposed him as a student debating politician, unserious and insincere. With George Osborne, his shadow Chancellor, looking too pleased by many of the jokes (he probably wrote them), they looked like two young men playing at politics.
PLUS: OK, this is a minor point, but Robert Sharp (must add him to the blogroll) thinks the analogue-digital metaphor fell flat too.
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