Link to speech:
There has been much praise heaped upon the speech given by David Hannan MEP in the European parliament railing against Gordon Brown's policies.
It was a great speech, but I can't help but remember his party opposing the labour party when they used the proceeds from the sale of 3G operator licenses to pay down the national debt. I find the gain in the polls for the conservatives to be completely bizarre. All the things that the labour government have done wrong have been wrong because they were too far in the direction that the conservative party leans. The conservatives were for the Iraq war, for reckless tax-cuts during the boom times and against the euro, all three policy mistakes that the UK is paying for now.
It should be the Liberal Democrats who are benefiting from all this, yet it seems that being "not the government" is enough to get the Conservatives elected, despite the fact that if they had been in power the UK would no doubt be in an even worse state than it is now.
