peter shows support

I'm still gobsmacked over the proposals thrown out to the Labour Party faithful today (even the ones who were knitting through the speech). Others have already dubbed the collective social housing for young mothers as "gulags for slags" or "huts for sluts", I've been toying with "Community Housing And Vocational Studies, Allocated Non-Discriminatory Supervised Living Arrangements for a Great Start" which is a bit of a mouthful so will be known by its acronym instead.

Lets take a peek at some of the other things Gordon said, shall we?

So I come from a family for whom the NHS was quite simply the best insurance policy in the world.

Really? Because the maths don't seem to show that the NHS insurance policy is as good value as, for example, BUPA. The NHS costs every single person in the UK approximately £1500 per year. My family could get the maximum possible cover with BUPA for less than half of the amount the NHS costs us, we could get a decent level of cover for the same as one of our contributions to the NHS pot. When mrsff approached her GP this year to have troublesome veins removed from her leg she was told that they would not fund the operation so she has to live on in pain thanks to the "best insurance policy in the world".

And so this is our choice - to toughen the rules on those who break the rules.

Even if they helped to make the rules they are breaking? C'mon Gordon, until you sack the Attorney General all of this 'tough on crime' rhetoric doesn't wash.

record results in schools, more students than ever,

And so I can tell you that in the next five years we cannot and will not cut support to our schools. We will not invest less, but more.

And our guarantee to parents is a ruthless determination to raise standards in every school.

We will aggressively turn round underperforming schools so that your child will have a good local school no matter where you live.

In the last 12 years we've already given teenagers educational maintenance allowances to help them stay on until 18. And in the next five years not just some but all young people will be staying in education or training until 18.

It's funny because you boast about the way that you've reduced the grade boundaries so that more students can stay on at further education and now you intend to force all kids to stay at school until they are 18. All those disruptive kids forced to stay in school fucking up the educational prospects of the bright and talented future generation. Way to go Gordon! At the same time you gloss over the fact that your party has been in charge of education for the last 12 years. All those failing schools? They're your fault, not the fault of the Tories. The Tories can be blamed for their fuck-ups but not yours.

We will not invest less, but more.

we have to make choices about taxation and public spending.

For there are only two options on tax and spending - One is reducing the deficit by cutting front line public services - the conservative approach. The other is getting the deficit down while maintaining and indeed improving front line public services - the Labour approach.

So we will raise tax at the very top, cut costs, have realistic public sector pay settlements, make savings we know we can and in 2011 raise National Insurance by half a percent

And they are against the measures we took to raise taxes and so that means even less money for frontline services.

Beneath all of your talk of 'change' the only change you are interested in is the change in my pocket. Your whole philosophy that you know better how to spend my money shone through today even though we are, as a country, in more debt now than at any other point in our history. And still you want to keep on spending money that you haven't got. You even want to give money that you haven't got to other countries to help them! When will you realise that it all has to be paid for somehow? I suspect once you become relegated to the back benches of the opposition you will be lobbying for the new Government to balance the books .. .. ..

we will give local authorities the power to ban 24 hour drinking throughout a community in the interests of local people

I'm intrigued by this proposal. Is it an admission that 24 hour drinking that you forced onto the statute books is a bad thing or is it part of the current campaign you are waging against alcohol?

And so conference, I can say to you today, in the next Parliament there will be no compulsory ID cards for British citizens.

Although that's not exactly the same thing as announcing that the scheme is being scrapped or that the database won't be compulsory is it? I can't wait to see how you weasel out of that between now and the election.

I'll leave you with this brilliant observation