Dismal Dave is piling on misery; VERDICT.

Byline: KEVIN MAGUIRE

DISHONEST Dave's trashing of Britain was miserable Con-servative politics.

The chief Con ran down the country with a manic glee. Everything's rubbish, broken, shattered, falling apart.

It's not easy to make dour Gordon Brown sound optimistic but he did it big time. Cameron's promised sunshine turned out to be six inches of rain and gale-force hot air. He went so OTT he sounded hysterical.

There's a fundamental dishonesty about a leader who claims to be straighttalking spouting so much drivel. Cameron called the global financial crisis disastrously wrong and would make a Great Depression out of a recession.

It's a wonder his nose wasn't as long as Pinocchio's for claiming the Conservative Party would fix the economy. Cameron's idea of fixing Britain is mass joblessness.

His attack on poverty and Labour failure to do more to improve the lot of the impoverished was passionate.

But it was dishonest from a man salivating over a proposed pounds 25-a-week snatch from 500,000 ill and depressed workers. The millionaire who not so very long ago flew to Glasgow and blamed the poor for their poverty has no right to throw stones when he has a glass jaw.

Hand the NHS back to the people? Don't make me laugh. Cameron would turn it into Britain's biggest quango.

The Cons have endured a messy week in Manchester. Europe rumbled in the background, with the party's extremist allies an embarrassment.

Cameron fluffed a pensions snatch and was forced into a U-turn. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's cuts are unpopular, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling is heavily devalued.

The first sustained scrutiny for two years of the party has found it wanting.

Of course Cameron's privileged background doesn't allow him to be humble. It isn't in his DNA.

Yesterday he looked a little tireder, older and a tad vulnerable.

The frog in his throat led some to wonder if he was choking on his own nonsense.

This Con-servative leader wouldn't put Britain back on its feet. He'd cripple it.

The moaning minnie yesterday reminded me what a disaster he'd be in Number 10.

BRITAIN'S NOT BROKEN

THE country will always be a great place to live. I have a choice of anywhere in the world to live and bring up my family, and I chose to live here and educate my children here.

- THEO PAPHITIS