Welcome to the Dave show...
TB has had a busy morning, starting with a full Scottish breakfast in bed. Was interviewed by the Sunday Herald about blogging and the meeja and TB's new branded cotton bags for life...
Bus loads of people are arriving for Dave's big speech at three o'clock. The Perth Concert Hall is remarkably similar, a mini version even of the Birmingham Symphony Hall where DC gave him last barnstorming conference closer. There isn't the same tense buzz that there was at Birmingham but there is defiantly an anticipation that finally the Scottish party is a force to contend with.
TB and his partner in crime have managed to crash the press section so enjoying the free wi-fi and finally able to catch up on emails and gossip etc.
Incase you were wondering what the massive jumbo-tron Dave is all about, well it was a video introduction from yesterday. Yes a twenty foot by sixty DC is pretty scary.
Will be live blogging the speech. First up Michael Gove, who is the proud new owner of one of the TB bags.
+++LIVE BLOG+++ 14:00: Ok so got kicked out of the press section, weirdly about five minutes after publishing on here that TB was there. Odd.
+Now surrounded by an entire class of schoolkids who are debating the merits of the SNP and Tories. The soundest ten year old in Perthshire just came out with this classic "We need liberty and lower taxes. The Conservatives will bring all this"
14:22: Gove apologies for expenses and turns it straight around. "DC firm, clear moral leadership this week"
14.27: Weee aaare Unionists... Sparta style.
14.29: "Where there is discourse may we bring harmony." For real.
14.48: Cringe. The conference chairman is doing a whip around. Pretty shameless.
15.15: It's serious and austere Dave today. Low key entrance, and gloves straight off. "Flipping homes? I've flipping banned it" To Salmond: "You may have two salaries but you don't have a leg to stand on"
15.18: Thrift, thrift, thrift.
15.19: No seats for the press mob.
15.21: Conservative government will publish every single piece of government spending online and quango salaries.
15.24: "I am a child of the modern world, I get it!" First time TB has ever heard a politician make that sentence believable.
15.28: DC will go to Holyrood once a year to be quizzed by MSPs. Good idea.
15:31: "I know you have lost faith in these politicians, but don't lose faith in politics."
Hope not despair. Another blinder by Dave.
Right, to the station...
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3 comments:
Refer all MP's, PCC's etc to your laptop and log on to any useful blog (Ian Dale, Guido etc). They will there observe that anger is brimming - spitting bloody tacks actually - people want a G.E. NOW!
Have a word. We can't bear (no pun intended) another year of this.
All expenses from all MP's on a single website so we can see who we are voting for then call a G.E.
It's the mood of the country. The Conservatives have the exceptional grounds to call the vote of no confidence in parliament itself (not a specific attack at Labour) and then we can get them out.
Hanging about allows the Labour spin machine to try and pull it back and smear the Conservatives before HAVING to call a G.E..
It is not opportunist - it is bloody well NEEDED!!!
The pictures look a bit like that Apple 1984 ad. :P
TB that's the soundest 10 year old in these United Kingdoms! Shame about your press gatecrashing. Might want to try not broadcasting your whereabouts next time :)