By Melanie Phillips

Last updated at 11:16 AM on 28th September 2011


The papers today are fawning over yesterday's instant sensation at the Labour party conference -- an articulate 16 year-old schoolboy, Rory Weal, who became the conference darling when he ripped into the 'vicious, right-wing Tory-led government'.

No surprise that he brought the conference to its feet. Gone were the crestfallen expressions at having been told by Tessa Jowell the unwelcome home truth that the country simply wasn't listening to anything the Labour party was saying.

Lifted were the eyes that had been fixed to the floor as party big-wigs had mouthed synchronised apologies for mass immigration (but only by Poles – even the apology was politically correct).

16-year-old Rory Weal, from Maidstone, addresses the Labour Party Conference at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.

16-year-old Rory Weal, from Maidstone, addresses the Labour Party Conference at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.

Banished was their terminal depression at their leader, Ed-trying-to-be-red-and-blue-at-the-same-time Miliband.

No, it was Rory Weal who gave them the rallying call, the three-word code, the mantra of hate that gives the left its entire purpose in life – to demonise 'vicious right-wing' Tories, and thus reinforce their own galvanising illusion that it is the Labour party which is the engine of decency and social justice.

In fact, Rory Weal was hailed as a hero for saying something that should have chilled the marrow. For he said:

'I owe my entire well-being and that of my family to the welfare state.'

In the real world, what that means (if true) is that his entire life has been spent as a kind of state serf, that he and his family are wholly lacking in independence, that their entire subsistence has been funded by the state.

Worse still, it would appear that in the mind of 16 year-old Rory Weal he has never gained any benefit to himself from anything other than the state.

Relieved: Ed is off the hook as Weal's speech banishing the parties terminal depression at their leader, Ed-trying-to-be-red-and-blue-at-the-same-time Miliband.

Relieved: Ed is off the hook as Weal's speech banishing the parties terminal depression at their leader, Ed-trying-to-be-red-and-blue-at-the-same-time Miliband.

No mention, note, of what he owes to his parents' own efforts for his well-being.

Indeed, to him they appear to have made no such contribution since he told us that he owes his 'entire well-being' to the welfare state.

To Rory Weal, all good things appear to come from the state – and so anyone who dares suggest otherwise is vicious and right-wing. Is that not terrifying?

To further illustrate the extent to which this self-designated creation of Britain's welfare state is apparently incapable of mouthing anything other than crude propaganda on its behalf rather than connecting to viciously right-wing reality, look at what else he said.

Attacking tuition fees and cuts in student grants, he claimed that the government was threatening the British promise

'...where one generation does better than the last.'

But it was under the Labour government that social mobility actually went backwards.

And look at where Rory Weal is doing his A-levels in English literature, geography, politics and history -- at Oakwood Park Grammar School.

Join the club: Rory Weal joins the other delegates at the Labour Party conference today after his stellar speech

Join the club: Rory Weal joins the other delegates at the Labour Party conference today after his stellar speech

But of course it is the destruction of the grammar schools which has been the single greatest cause of the betrayal of the promise that one generation does better than the last.

It is the Labour party which has waged all-out war upon the grammar schools on the basis that selective education is elitist.

And the reason Rory Weal attends Oakwood Park Grammar School in Maidstone is that it is under the authority of Kent County Council, one of the few local authorities to retain selective education -- and which is run by the vicious right-wing Tories.

He also complained that, after his parents divorced,' two and-a-half years ago, the home I had lived in since birth was repossessed'.

But two and a half years ago it was of course Labour that was in power.

So Rory Weal was blaming the Tories for a series of actions which were in fact taken by Labour governments! This boy will indeed go far.

 

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used by Labour but it's okay for William Hague to be shoved in front of the cameras, the hypocrisy of the right knows no bounds, Melanie Philips is on of the most humourless woman in the country, reading from notes on question time is boring enough.

Some time ago I wondered whether New Labour operated some sort of secret genetic engineering facility producing clones like the Miliband brothers. This boy may come from the same laboratory.

Why on earth would anyone take seriously the rantings of a 16 year old child? What does a child know about anything? This one has led a cossetted, privileged and protected life. I am quite sure he has no clue whatsoever. I remember when I was 16 my history teacher said something about young people thinking they knew everything, but that they only began to mature when they realised how little they actually knew.

Thank you Melanie for articulating so clearly what sensible people think of this ludicrous piece of Nu Labour theatre. Of course the BBC immediately threw this hobbledoy ( look it up the rest of you) on to the Jeremy Vine programme to vent his indoctrinated left wing spleen onto the Nation's listeners. 16 year old children of my generation were busy studying for their exams, playing football, discovering rock n'roll and chasing girls. How times have changed.

Your right about the hate Mantra. I've never witnessed such hatred as I did when attending the last general election in Glasgow, coming from the Labour lefties. No reason, just hatred towards the right. And very telling about labours apology on immigration...they were very careful always to point out they were only apologising for eastern European immigration. Nearly all the Labour candidates in Glasgow were of Asian heritage.

I think it is fairly clear that Labour is the nasty Party now.

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