Spending Snowcloud: Labour vs Conservative
Updated on 15 September 2009
Compare Gordon Brown's address to the TUC with David Cameron's 'Cutting the cost of politics' speech using our interactive Snowclouds.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the TUC conference that Labour will be ready to impose spending cuts once the recession is over.
But Tory leader David Cameron believes no one in the Cabinet can actually bring themselves to say the word "cut".
We put both leader's speeches head to head to analyse the spending manifestos.
Click on the images below to generate a full-screen, interactive word cloud.
Run the cursor over the words to see how often they appear.
Then click the word to find out how many times they used it, and in what context.
Gordon Brown's speech to the TUC, 15 September 2009
David Cameron, 'Cutting the cost of politics', 8 September 2009
About Snowclouds
Snowclouds are a Flash application designed by Channel 4 News's senior programme director, Martin Collett.
These interactive word clouds condense the text of a speech into one handy, interactive image. The more frequently a word is used during a speech, the bigger it is displayed. Clicking on the word brings up the transcript of the speech and shows the contexts in which the word was used.
The Snowcloud generator ignores common words such as "and", "the" and "there" to get a clearer picture of the distinct content of the speech.
As well as any word with fewer than four letters, those listed here are ignored by this Snowcloud (not all of the words in the list necessarily cropped up in the speech).
