That’s the political party’s annual conferences, of course.
Inevitably, the media has been looking closely at the speeches made by the various party leaders. Accoring to The Telegraph, Cameron’s much touted “without notes” speech for the Conservatives was only a last minute descision. It’s been referred to as “unscripted” in various places too - which is patently rubbish! Just watch the video and tell me if, for one moment, you think that was a genuinely impromptu speech! Just because the script’s not on an autocue, doesn’t mean it isn’t there!
I do this kind of thing for a living and I doubt I could have given that speech without some serious (and I mean serious) preparation. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not critisising him for what he did, far from it, just pointing out it’s not (quite) as advertised! 
It’s worth taking a look at the audience reactions too. For my money, the outbreaks of applause at various ‘claptraps’ were too slow off the mark to be genuine and organic; it looks to me as though there was a sense, amongst the audience, of “We’re supposed to clap now, so we’d better”. I’m not the only one who was underwhealmed, either!
Mind you, towards the end (which isn’t the best place for it, perhaps), he finally got some personal stories going.
I’ve not had time to look back at Gordon Brown’s speech yet, but I will….
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