A thought on IDS

Now, there's been enough detailed coverage of Iain Duncan Smith's speech yesterday that it doesn't need me to break it all down again - besides, I'm not sure I could keep a straight face if I was to analyse it too closely - but there was one sentence in it that he seemed to completely misread.

When he said 'The Quiet Man is turning up the volume' was it just me or did he, if anything, actually get quieter to the end of the sentence? Maybe it was just the fabled Iain Duncan Cough returning at the worst moment, but surely, when you're making an oratorical point like that it's imperative to, well, turn up the volume?