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Boris Fiddles (With His Mask) While Britain Burns "Sorry, can't give my speech until I've put my muzzle on." Boris gave a speech to the Conservative Party Conference yesterday in which he addressed people's concerns that our national debt now exceeds 100% of GDP, that pubs, restaurants and cinemas are vanishing from our high streets and that four million people will soon be unemployed by... talking about wind farms. He claimed that offshore wind will produce enough electricity to power every home in a decade, with Britain becoming "the Saudi Arabia of wind". Bizarre tangent to go off on and complete balls, obviously. In 2007, the Labour Government said wind energy would power every home in Britain by 2020. In reality, it's less than 20%. Boris himself said in 2013 that wind farms "couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding". There was also a lot of boilerplate about the brilliance of the private sector and small businesses, but as Dan Hodges said on Twitter: "Has there ever been a PM’s speech where the rhetoric – small state, libertarian, entrepreneurial – has been so divorced from the reality of the policies he’s actually implementing?" Allison Pearson's verdict in the Telegraph is withering. To be brutally honest, it was probably just as well that the PM couldn’t give his speech live ...
