The Sun leads press endorsements of DC speech
I was impressed by David Cameron's speech to Conservative party conference, as were most of those who have spoken to me about it, including some who describe themselves as floating voters.
This was the leader in today's Sun newspaper (headline "Yes He Cam")
And so the party conference season comes to an end with the parties in much the same position in the polls as they were before it. But in the meantime the Conservatives have started to make clear how we would deal with the very difficult situation the country finds itself in, while the Labour party has begun to float off into fantasy politics, as the Prime Minister scatters with gay abandon the kind of unfunded spending promise he used to condemn as imprudent while pretending they can be paid for later. Brown makes Mr Micawber look like the soul of fiscal responsibility.
The truth is that the longer the pain of dealing with a huge budget defecit is left, the worst that pain will eventually have to be. Because the national debt has doubled in the past five years, the money which the taxpayer has pay in interest on that debt is already more than we spend on schools or defence. The longer we allow that situation to get worse, the more painful the eventual correction will hbave to be.
The Conservatives made an honest attempt to address some of the issues required to make that correction in Manchester this week. I don't know whether this will help us to win the coming election. But I'm certain that it deserved to.
This was the leader in today's Sun newspaper (headline "Yes He Cam")
And so the party conference season comes to an end with the parties in much the same position in the polls as they were before it. But in the meantime the Conservatives have started to make clear how we would deal with the very difficult situation the country finds itself in, while the Labour party has begun to float off into fantasy politics, as the Prime Minister scatters with gay abandon the kind of unfunded spending promise he used to condemn as imprudent while pretending they can be paid for later. Brown makes Mr Micawber look like the soul of fiscal responsibility.
The truth is that the longer the pain of dealing with a huge budget defecit is left, the worst that pain will eventually have to be. Because the national debt has doubled in the past five years, the money which the taxpayer has pay in interest on that debt is already more than we spend on schools or defence. The longer we allow that situation to get worse, the more painful the eventual correction will hbave to be.
The Conservatives made an honest attempt to address some of the issues required to make that correction in Manchester this week. I don't know whether this will help us to win the coming election. But I'm certain that it deserved to.
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