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Chancellor's speech: Short of substance but full of scaremongering rhetoric


Business leaders give lukewarm response to Hammond's speech

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These bigoted hypocrites will use any abuse, any lie and any perversion of truth in their pathological quest to discredit and misrepresent Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party. Yesterday, (Monday), Chancellor Philip Hammond spent almost two thirds (BBC television figure) of his "speech" to Conservative party Conference, attacking Labour generally and Jeremy Corbyn in particular, with the most outrageous personal abuse and smear. The Chancellor could have directed his comments towards the economy, public sector pay, the banking system, inflation and one thousand other matters which the people might expect from the the Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible for all economic and financial matters, considered one of the four Great Offices of State and the most powerful office in British politics after the Prime Minister.

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Instead, this woeful occupant of 11 Downing Street, chose to spend the vast majority of the time allocated to him, in an absurd tirade which in fact only emphasised the fear which pervades the conservative party at the prospect of losing the next general election to the Labour party. He realises how close the conservatives came to defeat on June 8th and now recognises that a Labour government with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister is a distinct probability. The man who conservatives, the media and conservative supporters generally had dismissed as an unelectable "joke" will soon occupy number 10 Downing Street and the Conservatives are petrified at the thought.
The Conservative party Conference in Manchester is living up to the expectations and predictions that many of us had made last week. A succession of stage managed speeches, pauses for applause, photo opportunities for ministers, attacks on the "dangers" of a Labour government, all very predictable and from the evidence thus far, not as enthusiastically received by media, public, overseas audiences and businesses leaders around the country as the government, conference and party organisers will have hoped. It is a conference where fear of Labour and fear of disunity in conservative ranks dominates the proceedings.The fear is all too evident and Hammond's "speech" did nothing to reduce the tensions.






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