16-07-2009, 12:42 PM
Peter Presland Wrote:I need to enter some caveats before coming to the point of this post.Thank you Peter. Great theater! He really is very good.
Back in 1977 at the tender age of 16, William Hague made a much celebrated speech to the Tory Party Conderence. I remember it vividly because, for my sins and in my then ambitious credulous naivety, I too made a speech to that conference. It was on 'defence' and, unlike the then unruly flaxen-haired Hague, I am embarrassed :embarassed: - not to say ashamedtupido: - to recall its contents.
For reasons obvious to most members of this forum, I no longer have any truck with Mainstream Party politics but, largely because of that event, I have followed William Hague's progress quite closely. As a House of Commons Dispatch Box performer, he really is rather good and can be very entertaining indeed.
This clip is a hilarious demolition of both Gordon Brown and Tony Blair over the latter's proposed nomination for EU President (once the Irish have been made to vote the right way of course). He is a true master of humorous ridicule demolition jobs.
Enjoy
As for your speech at the party conference, well...as Thomas Beecham said, "Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest." :tee:
At least you moved on. William and friends are still there.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.