Oh, God, God, God, God, God . . . !

I know, I know, it's my own fault, I didn't have to but, hell, I decided to sit through Mrs. May's entire conference speech.  How do they do it?  Why do they do it?  And why do normally sensible people actually spend good money going there to listen to it in the conference hall?

I suppose one cannot blame her for the fact that she had a cold and thus kept dissolving into fits of coughing.  Nor was it her fault that the (non)security people dropped a bollock and allowed a prankster to get in and present her with a fake P45 - er, that's a form used 'over here' by employers to indicate to employees that they are fired.  Still, at least it gave us all a snigger, not least, I suspect, amongst her cabinet 'colleagues'!

But what an abject snore-fest the actual speech was!  Just one long list of platitudes with one recurring theme endless repeated - The British Dream!  That, of course, began life years ago 'over there' as The American Dream, surely we can invent some empty, meaningless slogans of our own!  Then, through the coughing fits, she kept banging on about her belief in free markets whilst simultaneously listing her hit-list of rules and regs to do the exact opposite by controlling the market place.

The only glimmer of light and hope was her absolutely firm declaration that we would leave the EU in 2019 come what may.  Mind you, May may not be there by then!

 

 

Comments

[Whitewall]

This was covered briefly over here. I have a feeling she is finished.

[Bob]

Britain has put itself in a "Catch 22". The term comes from a great American novel of the same name and describes a paradoxical situation caused by conflicting imperatives. In the book it means that pilots wanting psychological evaluations to leave the airforce during WWII are demonstrating sanity and are therefore ineligible. GB wants trade terms before leaving the EU, but can't negotiate them before the terms for leaving the EU. As we on this side of the pond have learned too well, only madmen flourish in such a conflicted environment. Boris for PM. Good luck, cousins.

[David Duff]

You are spot on, Whiters, she is finished.

Don't worry, Bob, I read 'Catch 22' decades ago! Also, your suggestion that our position in the EU is a similar paradox is quite wrong - don't believe all that pro-EU waffle from SoD. In 2019 we leave - with or without a deal - and then shall we see exactly who suffers the most - hint: it will not be us! Yes, there will problems but, hey, when did we ever not have problems?

[Bob]

Well, David, aren't you the sunny one?

[Whyaxye]

"That, of course, began life years ago 'over there' as The American Dream, surely we can invent some empty, meaningless slogans of our own!"

What about "Hard working families"? Surely that's a British one, but we're willing to sell it to the American who bought London Bridge.

[Whitewall]

Whyaxye...we yanks will buy most anything British...if it is English, even more so. Some of us are peculiar that way.

[Loz]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/04/dear-god-will-reliving-agony-theresa-may-speech-rest-days/

I'm going to the Battle Cruiser for a pint, in fact, the "obliteration" klaxon is ringing rudely loud indicating I'm long overdue a sesh-and-a-half, so I may be some time.

If the internet would kindly erase all trace to accompany my memory tomorrow morning, I might never know that just happened.

SoD

[Whitewall]

SoD,

Here? https://sharpsingle.com/2011/11/15/the-battle-cruiser/

[Loz]

Ayyyee, Whiters!

Bugger, still there.

Here's a nice touch, spotted by a Graun hack. Even the Tory PM is wearing Marxist accessories ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/04/was-theresa-mays-frida-kahlo-bracelet-a-political-statement

What next, a Che Guevara t-shirt?

CNN: "My country is a joke" ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/04/opinions/theresa-may-conservative-party-speech-crilly-opinion/index.html

Good call June 23rd y'all. Nice move.

SoD

[Loz]

Aside from the Marist baubles signalling, the disastrous presentation, how about the content? ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/05/theresa-mays-offering-new-incarnation-wet-statist-tory-thinking/

Oh yes. Of course.

Tic-tac-toe, three in a row.

SoD

[Loz]

Lord Buckethead saves the day ...

"I should point out that a muffled voice is not always a barrier to success."

https://twitter.com/LordBuckethead?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email&iid=e4c5266302414b2eb0acbd2ca4a0dcfa&uid=3411326711&nid=244+276893709

SoD

[Whitewall]

SoD,
from the Telegraph link: "It was hard to tell, exactly, because the speech was blatantly contradictory. One part was an almost uplifting endorsement of free-market economics, rightly explaining that is the greatest agent of human progress; but the actual policies amounted to a historic repudiation of these very principles"

Would that contradiction not make her a Libertarian? Sounds good to start with but then rolled back by the end?

[Loz]

The difference, Whiters, is: left-Libertarians do the social via redistribution, not state ownership of the means of production and distribution.

The ex-colonials have saved the day! ...

https://www.google.co.uk/url?q=https://www.ft.com/content/92bb5636-a95b-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjwsIy_vdnWAhUE1BoKHarKDGsQqQIIOCgAMAg&usg=AOvVaw3lyC1sSPUMojVAKh9NAK4b">https://www.ft.com/content/92bb5636-a95b-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjwsIy_vdnWAhUE1BoKHarKDGsQqQIIOCgAMAg&usg=AOvVaw3lyC1sSPUMojVAKh9NAK4b">https://www.google.co.uk/url?q=https://www.ft.com/content/92bb5636-a95b-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjwsIy_vdnWAhUE1BoKHarKDGsQqQIIOCgAMAg&usg=AOvVaw3lyC1sSPUMojVAKh9NAK4b

The rip-off of Brits and ex-colonials being quietly stiched together by HMG and EU - so much for free trade and outward facing Blighty - ain't gonna fly. Sharing the existing WTO EU tariff-free quota between UK and EU, and thereby reducing the tariff to both and increasing the protectionism and costs to Brit and EU consumers, has been sussed out.

And the Don is on the case - good on 'im.

SoD