LDVideo: Conservative Party conferences down the years … the funny bits

By Stephen Tall | Sat 7th August 2010 - 10:55 am

If the Daily Mail is to be believed [insert own punchline here] Conservative Party foreign secretary William Hague is to address this year’s Lib Dem conference, offering (apparently) “a ‘witty’ address, rather than focusing heavily on policy” – which seems right up Mr Haugue’s street.

In eager anticipation of this event, we at Lib Dem Voice have dug out some of the highlights of Tory conferences from yesteryear right up to the present to illustrate quite how far David Cameron’s party has travelled in the last three decades.

First up, here’s Rowan Atkinson slipping into the role of Golfing Tory under Mrs T:

(Also available on YouTube here.)

Secondly, here’s Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry enjoying the Young Tory of the Year contest during John Major’s reign:

(Also available on YouTube here.)

Penultimately, here’s a rather grainy Harry Enfield in full-throated Tory Boy rant against New Labour:

(Also available on YouTube here.)

And finally we come right up to date with perhaps the most laughable caricature of them all:

(Also available on YouTube here.)

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5 Comments

Moggy 7th Aug '10 - 1:36pm

We should have ordered Boris instead. That would be value for money!
Max Atkinson 7th Aug '10 - 1:57pm

Excellent clips, but in these days of coalition, you should surely show a bit more balance by including specimens from LibDem conferences as well. So you’ve prompted me to get on the case, and the first clip from my archives, starring David Steel in 1981, can now be inspected at http://su.pr/2xOtVB And there may be more such gems on the way in due course ….
Stephen Tall 7th Aug '10 - 2:09pm

Thanks, Max – to reassure you LDVideo has shown balance over its many episodes – eg, https://www.libdemvoice.org/youtube-cos-we-want-to-jeremy-david-and-paddy-15358.html

Archives of all LDVideos are here: https://www.libdemvoice.org/category/youtube
Porphyry 7th Aug '10 - 3:54pm

Might this not be eerily appropriate?
Sesenco 8th Aug '10 - 9:20am

You haven’t mentioned Quintin Hogg, dressed only in swimming trunks, ringing a bell on Brighton beach.