I hope you’re prediction about the next election is right. Entrepreneurialism isn’t achieved by spreading by fear or by installing uniforms in schools. Did Steve Jobs wear a suit? More on Cameron and the ‘Rise of the Darwinian Knight’ at Indiabourke blogspot.

In the hall, his speech would have been enthusiastically received by an assortment of swivel eyed loons, the undead and those suffering from early and advanced senile dementia.
Outside, those largely irrelevant keyboard rattlers of the media.
A good and growing proportion of the rest of the country are however more concerned with their falling living standards, the ability to keep or get a job, the future of the Health Service, food price inflation, the cost of fuel, the declining value of their money and pensions, keeping warm and secure, getting a place for their children at the school of their choice, etc., etc., etc.
Yeah, Dave and his mob of miracle workers are doing just fine.

Cameron: 'When people earn money, it's their money'. But what exactly is the relationship between 'earnings' and labour? The tory philosophy is not just simplistic but selfish.

Thank you for this. Elsewhere, the public school and bitter old Blairite line from the huddle is obvious enough on this. Dan Hodges, you know who you are. But I for one fell asleep during this speech. I bet that I was not the only one. Let's wait for the polls and then the upcoming by-elections (you know, real votes) shall we? We all know what they are going to say.

"a million new private sector jobs had been created (although 196,000 of these were simply reclassified from the public sector)"

George, are you implying that Blair/brown never fudged the employment figures in their time in government? Brown seemed to think his figures were good, no more boom and bust he said, because we can boom forever, forget economics thats just for newbies like David Blanchflower, although David himself would like to think that all his predictions would have prevented this mess Labour left behind - and that sums up the Labour economic policy. Never trust Labour with money.

The economy and Europe are the battlegrounds in the next election and Ed offers nothing in these areas. Labour just aren't electable.

On the subject of growth, why do we need it? We need it because we have a banking system which perpetually takes out more than it puts in, a state of affairs which is impossible to maintain for long. Maintaining the banking system is costing us so dear we can't afford it any more, and that's what all our politicians, bar a handful, are refusing to face. Dave's got nothing to say on this subject but then, his father's money came from banking. He's the enemy and he knows. His time's run out, he knows that too. Hence his irrelevant speech today. The only way he could have made it relevant was to confess his way of life, the British Establishment's way of life, is over.

"The hall lapped it up, but Cameron's speech will have fallen flat in most of the country"

I live in most of the country. I am not a Tory. Yet I enjoyed the speech. Does that make me sceptical too?

Funny, but no person, let alone a politician, will ever win over EVERYONE. So split government again next election

"We were reminded again that the deficit had been reduced by a quarter" Which isn't even true, hell Newsnight pointed out the fiction of it on Monday night.