Comments on: David Cameron’s Unorthodox Rhetoric http://www.podiumpundits.com/2009/10/16/david-camerons-unorthodox-rhetoric/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:29:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: maxatkinson http://www.podiumpundits.com/2009/10/16/david-camerons-unorthodox-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-363 maxatkinson Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:35:25 +0000 http://www.podiumpundits.com/?p=2432#comment-363 P.S. I've just been catching up on the BBC TV weekly 'Question Time' program that was broadcast later in the day on which David Cameron made this particular speech. Two of the guests, the editor of a satirical magazine and a Labour cabinet minister, picked out the 'poverty moment' for attack - but got very different reactions from the audience - short video clips on which have just been posted on my blog at <a href="http://maxatkinson.blogspot.com/2009/10/contrasting-reactions-to-camerons.html" rel="nofollow">http://maxatkinson.blogspot.com/2009/10/contras...</a> P.S. I've just been catching up on the BBC TV weekly 'Question Time' program that was broadcast later in the day on which David Cameron made this particular speech. Two of the guests, the editor of a satirical magazine and a Labour cabinet minister, picked out the 'poverty moment' for attack – but got very different reactions from the audience – short video clips on which have just been posted on my blog at http://maxatkinson.blogspot.com/2009/10/contras...

]]> By: maxatkinson http://www.podiumpundits.com/2009/10/16/david-camerons-unorthodox-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-362 maxatkinson Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:28:24 +0000 http://www.podiumpundits.com/?p=2432#comment-362 I wouldn't have said that Cameron's rhetoric was 'unorthodox', though the content of some it may be as far as traditional Conservatives are concerned. Don't forget that he won the leadership at a beauty parade in which he started out as the outsider - but an apparently unscripted speech won the day for him. A I've blogged about on various occasions, he's the most proficient British orator since Tony Blair. <br><br>It's not just his commitment to the National Health Service that surprises some onlookers, bit in the speech you're discussing here, he caused quite a stir by winning a standing ovation from the audience for his position on poverty. Technically, it was a masterpiece, as it was triggered by his first attempt at 'surfing' applause, which I'd recommended he was proficient enough to do in a blog before his speech at last year's conference.<br><br>The clip, together with my comments on it, can be seen at <a href="http://maxatkinson.blogspot.com/2009/10/camerons-conference-speech-high-spot.html" rel="nofollow">http://maxatkinson.blogspot.com/2009/10/cameron...</a> - from where there are also links to other discussions of Cameron's oratory. I wouldn't have said that Cameron's rhetoric was 'unorthodox', though the content of some it may be as far as traditional Conservatives are concerned. Don't forget that he won the leadership at a beauty parade in which he started out as the outsider – but an apparently unscripted speech won the day for him. A I've blogged about on various occasions, he's the most proficient British orator since Tony Blair.

It's not just his commitment to the National Health Service that surprises some onlookers, bit in the speech you're discussing here, he caused quite a stir by winning a standing ovation from the audience for his position on poverty. Technically, it was a masterpiece, as it was triggered by his first attempt at 'surfing' applause, which I'd recommended he was proficient enough to do in a blog before his speech at last year's conference.

The clip, together with my comments on it, can be seen at http://maxatkinson.blogspot.com/2009/10/cameron... – from where there are also links to other discussions of Cameron's oratory.

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