The speech of 2008

Napoleon

This speech is great!I remember when I saw it for the first time, I was amazed, and wanted to see it again! It's sad that the Labour government does not have someone with his "oratory skills"

Chris

And you wonder why the conservative party isn't further ahead in the polls. As long as it thinks this sort of smart alecry is what the voters want, it hasn't got a hope. Hague led the party to disaster as leader and he's still a menace. An ability to make clever remarks is no qualification for political leadership.

Theodore

Brilliant

Fraser A

Chris you're quite right, an ability to make gaffes is a much better qualification.

fnusnuank

Yes it is good. Shame no one in the media agrees that the Euroviet Union is as described by Hague or could care less. No doubt we'll just have to wait for it to collapase as all dictatorships eventually do. That or bloody revolution.

TGF UKIP

Hague was arrogantly wrong to put himself successfully forward as Leader so early. He didn't then stand a chance for two reasons. Firstly, the Tories were still too tarnished by the poisonous smears of Campbell and Mandelson and secondly he was relentlessly undermined from within by the Left, particularly the Parliamentary Left, of the Tory Party. If he had waited he would almost certainly now be Leader, be far superior to and far more popular than SocDem Dave and the Tories would be much further ahead in the polls. This brilliant speech shows just a glimpse of what might have been.

mike

Napoleon It's sad that the Labour government does not have someone with his "oratory skills" We did have, we dumped him. Much like the electorate dumped your man. We don't want funny or slick, the world has become too dangerous.

Napoleon

Mike, You're right that Labour dumped him, somehow they thought that 10 years of that guy was enough, but 10 years of Gordon wasn't. Now I agree that the world does not need funny all times, but sometimes it necessary. And Hague can make a serious point and still provoke laughs, that is something that we don't have in government, and if we had, it 's quite possible that people, specially the press, would hear more about the government plans if they have some.

Max Kaye

Is there any way we could see Hague across the dispatch box from Brown? He would tear him apart. (sigh)

David Boycott

Oh for crying out loud. As though any member of the Labour Cabinet has any qualifications for dealing with a dangerous world. David "Gap Year" Milliband, Des "Two Jobs" Browne? I think not. Even Gordon Brown has never taken any interest whatsoever in foreign policy, despite a decade in Cabinet.