The letters fiasco at the Tories’ conference suggests that this country is fitting a laughing stockThe aspect of Theresa May’s calamitous conference speech that worried me most was the letters falling off the wall. For most viewers,that was just the amusing punchline to the sketch. The main bits were the comedian with the spoof P45, the coughing, or the water,the throat sweet from Philip Hammond, the throat sweet joke from Theresa May, or,of course, Amber Rudd bullying Boris Johnson into helping her elicit a standing ovation to buy time for their leader to hawk something meaningful up in the hope of restoring medium-term vocal competence.
Summarised like that, and it sounds like a brilliantly entertaining speech. But one must remember that these titbits of non-tedium were spread out over an entire hour. It’s a gag rate that even the least sparky series of Last of the Summer Wine never stooped to. Which is why,even though I am writing an article approximately the speech for a national newspaper, I have not watched it. I absolutely refuse to watch it. Nothing on soil is worth that.
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Source: guardian.co.uk