This really REALLY infuriates me! My son now thinks it is imperitive to have internet access to do his homework. The school supplies him with photocopied pages, not a text book in sight. I often suggest he trots of down to the library where he will find, you know, books.

I swear, he has never used an index to find a topic in a book. The resistance displayed when I suggest he does is enough to make my blood boil.

God help this next generation when due to Labour dithering we have power cuts and energy rationing.

I have seen what the state school system has done, I hate it.

Eventually, if he flogs this horse for long enough, it will fall over with a gasp and expire and he won’t be able to flog it any more.

I hope he sleeps well at night, tucked up tight with his puerile presbyterian philosophies.

He aspired to high office, an office to which he is unsuited and incapable of fulfilling with any success. Were he a CEO, the board would have kicked him out long ago. Why does UK Plc suffer such fools?

His conference speech was all about “me, me me!” It was a mini budget speech with no care about the country or the people. His every announcement is a piece of PR spin with no actual deliverables. He is worse than Blair and without the ability to even make it entertaining. I still don’t know from the vacuous hot air he came up with in his conference speech, what he is going to do to sort this country out apart from speed up the process of installing the ID card scheme so he can monitor our every thought and deed.

If I wanted to live in a Stalinist country with a bust economy then I could go somewhere in the eastern block.

He is hopeless at everything, even PR, and should crawl back in to the hole he came out of before – and I agree wholeheartedly with George Osborne – he bankrupts the country. No wonder the US didn’t want him anywhere near their economy and Paulsen refused to see him. They’ve heard of the curse of Jonah and probably want nothing to do with his half-baked schemes.

You’re absolutely right and it is about time we kicked out this apology for a government and its empty-headed stooge. Even George Bush sounds like a towering intellect by comparison.

Had there been a similar overflow area at Manchester yesterday perhaps we might have experienced what the Labour Party workers really felt.

what is needed is for every senior member of your party to be repeating the context of your excellent post again, and again. I hope this starts to happen at conference next week,, I cannot believe how many blatant mistruths (national debt, 18% inflation under the Tories etc) Brown is allowed to repeat, without any challenge from your party, even in PMQs.

meanwhile you can bet your life that Cameron will not be given the easy ride by media that Brown enjoyed, especially by the “completely unbiased” BBC. Let’s hope that he nails his speech, with some meat on the bone about real policy direction, even if we all know any detailed policy will be copied, and ultimately ruined, by Brown and his bunch of halfwits.

The FSA has been too focused on consumer protection and taken its eye of the ball in that area.

In fact, I suspect the regulatory needs in the consumer area would be better allocated to the Office of Fair Trading and the FSA simply wound up altogether.

I was hoping that there would be another paragraph; before I got to SHARE AND ENJOY; which would start, “So the Conservatives will …”. Unfortunately, there was no “share and enjoy” paragraph. Probably still too far from the election, I expect for such sharing.

Hang about, young Douglas has just e-mailed the answer to my question:- http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2008/09/jesse-norman-re.html

Another one to join the “Localist Papers” on that dusty shelf at CCHQ me thinks.

But, it ignores two basic points – Gordon wasnt a particularly good Chancellor – he talked the talk, but he didnt walk the walk. He used to talk about neo classical growth theory. But, he hasnt improved British competitiveness much despite having had a huge windfall. Secondly, the British public is absolutely furious about the economy and taxes, going towards the left as Labour has done, is exactly the wrong strategy. But Gordon is a tactician, with a tin ear for strategy.

For the UK this is a bad thing in the short run, as it means more Gordon, more bad government, slightly more left wing policies. But, in the long run as it becomes clear how incompetent Gordon really is (I predict the “novice” claim is going to be a source of ridicule), it should do Labour a lot of damage. Also while Gordon has tactically secured left wing inaction, he remains fundamentally a gutless trimmer of the centre, so he will eventually lose left wing support. All of this suggests a bad time for Labour, which is a good thing for the UK in the medium term.

To browse the web, help kids to their homework and interact with government sites a simple £200 or less net-PC would be more than enough. All £700 will do is fund the next generation of computer games players. !!

Weeks of preparation went into that speech and all the spin that surrounded it. One wonders about the relative importance of his empty words compared to the dark realities of increasing unemployment, collapsing banks, and spiralling debt.

And as reduced state spending would appear to be absent from the list of solutions, it is now time for one of the pollsters to do a comparison poll of voting intentions of those who work for the state compared to those who do not. This element of the Brown survival plan must be exposed.

But in terms of master strategy, one has to question as to who benefits most from Gordon Brown’s survival – Labour or the Conservatives? The answer is fairly obvious. The turkeys didn’t vote for Christmas – they are simply hoping that Christmas will never come.

The large majority of people will probably not initially realise that, “your ticket was bought with borrowed money [that] you will have to help the nation repay in future”. Incapability Brown is the master at these gimmicks, giving out “presents” at taxpayers expense.

Will we end up at the doors of the IMF again.? Browns intentions bring that day nearer.