This is just too good not to share:
That is Harry Leslie Smith at the Labour Party conference.
He is a very good writer. I recommend his book, 'Harry's Last Stand'. This is from his speech:
As I stand here today, my heart is with all of those people from my generation who didn't make it past childhood, didn't get an education, grow as individuals, marry, raise a family and enjoy the fruits of retirement because they died needlessly and too early in another era of austerity, But my heart is also with the people of the present, who, because of welfare cuts and austerity measures, are struggling once more to make ends meet, and whose futures I fear for.
We should take note. These memories are fading. We should not forget them.
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I put it on my Facebook page. I hope the younger ones will read.
I was there. It was truly moving.
Indeed, Richard-these memories are fading and I fear their loss as we need their earnest endeavour to fight for an equitable society. Many, now in their 90’s are aghast at what we have become.
I can remember the 90 year old barrister and Lord, Jeremy Hutchinson, speaking on Desert island Discs over a year ago. He was an old Etonian who fought for legal Aid and Civil Liberties after the war and felt the class system needed to go. He expressed unequivocally that ‘we are going backwards’. How sad for these brave people who fought fascism to witness this in their twilight years.
Harry Leslie Smith is a name I look to for what seem to me always to be wise, compassionate and articulate words. Were there a vote for such a thing, I’d nominate him as one of our national treasures.
Agreed