Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Like Henry's Speech before Agincourt?

I did not watch or listen to Cameron's speech but read it instead as I had done with Osborne's speech. It was a well crafted speech and its emphasis on leadership could equally have been on character. To me "overcoming challenge, confounding the sceptics, reinventing ourselves" is about character. This is what will be needed in the months ahead and in particular to control the flow of idiotic directives flowing out of Brussels of the kind Cameron referred to and will not be done without renegotiating our relationship with that institution which is the antithesis of the country Cameron wants Britain to be and a huge brake on our development. Cameron was right to refer to the need for fast transport and broadband but what is he going to do about airports and about the challenge to Dover by Calais? The other grouse I have is Cameron's seeming total acceptance of the green agenda. Scepticism is sometimes a conservative virtue particularly when those pushing their own agendas tell you things like 'the science is settled'. A sure sign that those who say those kind of things are trying to pull the wool over your eyes. The science is not settled any more than it's certain I can play a par round of golf. Nor can I accept that we should be spending more and more on the NHS year in and year out. The NHS is hopelessly overstaffed, bureaucratic, wasteful and thus far too expensive. If we are to be stuck with the existing NHS structure then we should at least make a determined effort to make it more efficient and drive down costs by introducing real competition and use the savings in part to reduce what the taxpayers pump into it and in part to fund new equipment. For example I understand that in France and Holland they are able to pick up cancerous polyps when they are at a size that our scanning machines are unable to identify. Possibly this is more to do with the radiated molecules injected into the patient than the scanning machinery? Cameron's speech was otherwise a great success and entirely suitable for these dangerous times. A bit of Henry's speech before Agincourt.        

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