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I am a bit disappointed if I am honest, I hoped to hear some words of change and compassion and found very little there.

It was largely a continuance of the 2010 election campaign,I agree hard decisions had to be taken and still need to be, he has however in my opinion,( and I don't really believe he himself wanted to go as far as to it),gone too far and with little compassion in his social policies overall.
I heard nothing to make me feel that come the next election he will be saying anything different than the last one.
The last election turned voters away from him, he had a commanding lead of 10+points over Labour before the election was called, he ended up not winning an overall majority and seeing that lead pegged back even after a totally disastrous Labour campaign.

While I agree with much that he said today, I cannot see him bringing any more voters to his party next time and no way will Labour be on only 29% this time round.
More compassion was needed to be displayed in his speech, he didn't take the chance to do so enough for me.

With so much pain to come for those who are the weakest and most vulnerable in the next 12 to 18 months from April next year, I cannot see him leading the Conservatives to anywhere near an overall majority and also likely not to being the largest party in 2015 even.

I like David Cameron but as in 2010,I couldn't yet see myself supporting the Conservatives at the next election and his speech today did nothing at all to tempt me on board.
I wish they would tell us the truth too, it was said the Coalition was made to all but clear the deficit by 2015, claiming Labours plans to halve the deficit in 4 years being bad for the Nation and unambitious.
In 2 and a half years the deficit was reduced by only 25% despite all these hard measures put in place and the deficits is rising again due to new and this Govt borrowing.
They will therefore fail to all but clear the deficit by 2015.

He was right,as he spoke from the experience of his own Child,that people did and still do see the wheelchair of a disabled person and not the person in it, I don't agree with him that has changed much even after the Paralympics.
The sad irony is though, that this coalition has created anxiety, confusion and even fear among many genuine diasbled people with much more of those policies containing near no compassion whatsoever still to come.
That he didn't address at all and in my view he needed to put an end to this demonisation of the disabled that even his Ministers help to fuel in the media.

For me, the conferences vote is Clegg's speech 3/10, Ed Miliband 8/10, David Cameron 7/10.
I have to say I have found near all the conferences apart from rare moments,the most tedious I have watched these last few years.