![]() ![]() Why haven’t houses “been built where they are needed and wanted”? What are the “barriers to growth” that will be lifted? None of the “hard choices” were specified or stepped out. ![]() From broadcast to podcast, they peddle the same old answers.” But there was no substance. An attack on the enemies within: “They taxi from north London townhouses to the BBC studio to dismiss anyone challenging the status quo. The audience, even though it was bulked out with passing randoms because of the rail strike, was willing Truss on.Īnd she gave the hall what they wanted - her greatest hits. The last was the giveaway: this wasn’t a speech aimed at the country but at the conference hall. All the political clichés were there: “hard choices” “the status quo is not an option” “grow the pie” “I get it” “tough times”, and the hoary old favourite “on your side”, clunkily delivered as “on their side”. Truss’s speech was confirmation that while she campaigned in prose, she is committed to governing in boilerplate. It was Mario Cuomo who said that politicians “campaign in poetry, but govern in prose”. Only the Prime Minister’s silence, and nervous smile, signalled this was the end. Pledging to “stay the course”, she concluded by declaiming: “That is how we will build a new Britain for a new era.” It was a peroration so underwhelming that her loyal audience were unsure whether to politely applaud or launch into the obligatory standing ovation that follows the speech’s conclusion. ![]() Liz Truss took the opposite tack in her speech to Conservative Party Conference. “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” snarled Johnny Rotten as he simultaneously left both the stage in San Francisco and the Sex Pistols. ![]()
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