Conference Speeches, from Surrealist,

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murderrespectable" George Orwell


DAVID CAMERON: It's been a great week. This week we've shown we are back inthe centre ground of British politics//////////\\\\\\\\\\Once upon a timethere was a little red hen who lived by herself in the woods. Near thelittle red hen there lived a sly young fox. He lived with his mother in aden underground//////////\\\\\\\\\\Our new candidates are changing the waywe think about politics, not just campaigning and delivering leaflets butmaking a difference in their community//////////\\\\\\\\\\Now the sly youngfox had one big ambition. He wanted to catch the little red hen and eather!//////////\\\\\\\\\\Standing up for what you believe in. Putting yourcountry first. That is something that this party has always deeplyunderstood//////////\\\\\\\\\\One day the sly young fox thought up a very cunning plan indeed. "Put somewater on the fire to boil," he told his mother. "tonight we shall eat thelittle red hen for our dinner."//////////\\\\\\\\\\Let's not think thatpeople are going to jump straight into our arms. This is going to be slowpatient hard work//////////\\\\\\\\\\The sly young fox hid behind a tree andwaited. The little red hen came outside. The minute her back was turned thesly young fox slipped quietly into her house//////////\\\\\\\\\\For too longthe political decisions in this country have been made in the wrong place.Not round the cabinet table where they should be. But on the sofa in TonyBlair's office//////////\\\\\\\\\\The little red hen came inside. As soon asshe shut the door, she came face to face with the sly youngfox!//////////\\\\\\\\\\There is no greater responsibility for a PrimeMinister than protecting the security of our country and sending our armedforces into action//////////\\\\\\\\\\The little red hen escaped to a perchhigh up near the ceiling. She felt her head going round and round...shebecame so dizzy that she fell straight into the fox'sbag!//////////\\\\\\\\\\You know Liam Fox. I know Liam Fox. He is someonewith real passion and energy who would never stop fighting for Britain'stroops to get them all that they need//////////\\\\\\\\\\The sly young foxsat down to rest. He began to doze. The little red hen crept away. Quicklyshe collected some stones and put them into the bag to fool the fox. Then
she ran off home//////////\\\\\\\\\\The moment I walk through the front doorof Downing Street I will have the huge responsibility of protecting theBritish people from terrorism//////////\\\\\\\\\\The sly young fox returnedhome. "I've got the little red hen!" he shouted to his mother. She had a potof water boiling. The sly young fox opened the bag over the boiling pot. Thestones fell out of the bag...SPLASH!...right into the water. The boilingwater splashed all over the two foxes and killed them both.TONY BLAIR: Most of politics isn't about politics in the sense of meetings,resolutions, speeches or even parties. It starts withpeople//////////\\\\\\\\\\Baghdad, September the 30th, 2004, explosions killmore than 40 people, most of them children//////////\\\\\\\\\\Take a stepback and be proud. This is a changedcountry//////////\\\\\\\\\\Mid-December,2004,at least 60 Iraqis are killedin bombings in the Shia holy cities of Najaf andKerbala//////////\\\\\\\\\\We faced out to the people, not in onourselves//////////\\\\\\\\\\May 2005 doubles April's total of Iraqicivilians killed in shootings and car bombings; the total for the monthreaches 672//////////\\\\\\\\\\We went back to first principles, to ourvalues, our real values, those that are timeless and seperated them fromdoctrine and dogma that had been ravaged by time//////////\\\\\\\\\\Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick is sentenced to eight years in prison for his role inthe abuse and torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. He admits to having takenpart in a faked threat of execution, in which a prisoner had wires attachedto his hands and was told that he would be electrocuted if he stepped or felloff the box he was forced to stand on. Other charges included hittingprisoners, making a group of nude prisoners form a human pyramid, andforcing prisoners to masturbate and simulate oral sex//////////\\\\\\\\\\ Iwant to heal//////////\\\\\\\\\\November, 2004.People in Fallujeh are beingmurdered. They have nothing to eat. No produce is going into the city andthe water has been cut off for days and days. People are drinkingcontaminated water and coming down with diarrhoea and other diseases. Thereare corpses in the street because no one can risk leaving their home to burypeople//////////\\\\\\\\\\The true beliver believes in social justice, insolidarity, in help for those not able to help themselves.//////////\\\\\\\\\\January 5th and 6th, 2006. More than 180 people die in aspate of attacks. These include attacks on mourners at a funeral and outsidea holy shrine and a double suicide bombing against Sunnis gathered at apolice recruiting centre//////////\\\\\\\\\\We used to feel we could shutour front door on the problems and conflicts of the widerworld.//////////\\\\\\\\\\

On February the 22nd, 2006,bombs destroy the Al Askari Mosque in Samara,
one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam. By the end of the following day, the Sunni
Association of Muslim Scholars says that 168 Sunni mosques have been attacked.
Clerics, journalists and other civilians, most of them Sunnis, are killed in widespread
violence. The Iraqi government reports that 379 have been killed and 458 wounded.
The Washington Post, on February 27th reports a much higher death toll of1,300//////////\\\\\\\\\\This terrorism isn't our fault. We didn't cause it.It's not the consequence of foreign policy. It killed nearly 3,000 peopleincluding over 60 British on the streets of New York before war inAfghanistan or Iraq was even thought of//////////\\\\\\\\\\For the 3,000victims in America on September 11th 2001, more than 650,000 have died inIraq.


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blair, Tony Speech to the Labour Party Conference, (26 September 2006)
Cameron, David Speech to The Conservative Party Conference (4 October2006)
"Riverbend" Baghdad Burning (Volume 2) (2006, Marion Boyars: London)(Taken from): http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com
Stimson, Joan "The Sly Fox and The Little Red Hen" (1993, LadybirdBooks: London)

Alex a.k.a. Surrealist Feest., somewhere in the west country.,