Nice clickable video of the speech, with transcript (51 mins):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11489470

Slightly facetious analysis of speech from a BBC analyst who is attempting to be funny and occasionally succeeds (don't worry, he did it for Ed as well):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11489208

Nick Robinson being irritating yet somewhat sensible:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2010/10/appeal_for_nati.html

Condensed version (3 mins)

My Thoughts:

• Oh dear, he said Thatcher was the best peacetime PM ever. I'm inclined to agree, but most people aren't.
• The new Tory logo (the Tree with the Union Flag) is really beyond creepy. It looks like the BNP logo.
• I like the repeated attacks on Labour. They deserve it.
• Good justification of budget cuts.
• Nobody understood what the hell this Big Society thing was or why they should be a part of it, so this is beating a dead horse, but it's fundamentally a good idea...a little like Communism. It'll never work. People aren't going to pay you taxes, work a full time job and then organise community-run universities in their free time with no incentives.
• LordKitchenerLol (for those who didn't know, Kitchener used the phrase "Your Country Needs You" 25 years before Uncle Sam)
• He was a little emotionless at some points, but when it really counted, he did put some passion in (like when he was talking about the Lockerbie bomber)
• Good, though slightly positively-spun summary of what the Conservative Party (er, coalition) has managed to do in three months.
• Reasonably successful attempts to convince the Conference that Nick Clegg isn't a deluded moron, he's a deluded moron who knows when to shut up and do as he's told.

I voted for 2. I liked the speech very much; it was far more entertaining than that dross he spews in front of the public, but he really needs to shut up about this Big Society thing. It's not happening, really.

I read James Cameron in the title and got extremely confused, I actually thought he went ahead with his plans to make a country called Pandora

anyways watching the vids now, though I will say I hate cameron.

I usually dislike him for being secretive about real policies and making up socialist crap to sound like New Labour, but he doesn't do that here.

He wants to put up dog taxes 200% to fund MP pensions.

Come on! GamrConnect gets 1100 hits from the UK every day!

I understand most of you despise David Cameron, but at least read the summary!

Im sorry Kantor, the UK just sucks. You cannot get around that simple fact. The responses to this thread prove it. 33% of the 6 responses aren't even from the UK!

Now 50% of the responses aren't from the UK. Talk about a nation in trouble!

it's a load of blah blah blah... appeal to my blah blah party and blah blah do nothing original or interesting... national government is now just a series of managers with no influence or ideas....

I am from the UK.

No. You're far too positive to be coming from there. Maybe you're from Ireland and got confused?

I love you Squilliam.

Born in Margate; raised in Whitstable; dwell in Weymouth.

Global democracy is the future :)