This is how to give an acceptance speech. The actual speech begins at 2:54. The result is before that, but it's also worth watching:
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Now the Hannah Spencer question. What do you get if you work hard?
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Ian!
That’s my pitch!
Pilgrim
Us Wessex Roundheads are quick off the mark.
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Wessex?
A fine county.
Brought tears to my eyes. If the Greens field more candidates like her (= local people who understand the concerns of local people) then the “main parties” will have problems.
Thank you, Mike. + 1.
Labour have several MPs that are representative of the people:
❌Sir Keir Starmer (millionaire)
❌David Lammy (millionaire)
❌Rachel Reeves (millionaire)
❌Yvette Cooper (millionaire)
❌Jas Athwal (millionaire)
❌Siobhain McDonagh (millionaire)
❌Bayo Alaba (millionaire)
❌Gurinder Singh Josan (millionaire)
❌Wes Streeting (millionaire)
❌Lucy Powell (millionaire)
❌Shabana Mahmood (millionaire)
❌Ed Miliband (millionaire)
❌Barry Gardiner (millionaire)
A wonderful result!! Just what I was hoping for – a Reform win would have been a nightmare. Hannah is inspiring, straight talking and direct.
What a great speech. So relieved.
A VERY great speech!
“We don’t have to hate each other…”
It isn’t rocket science, is it?
Well done Gorton & Denton.
A truly genuine heartfelt speech with a nice dash of humour. This is what humanity looks like. It was was also noticeable how the deplorable Reform candidate squirmed. Goodwin by name, Badloser by nature.
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Wonderful.
A victory for hope over hate.
Contrast that great speech with Heidi Alexander on Today this morning in the key 8:10 interview spot, with Nick Robinson.
The transport secretary basically told us that it will be more of the same and that we should have patience.
One point – In her gratuitous attacks on the Greens she accused them of being “soft on defence”. this contrasts with Labour, who are “very soft” on serious diplomacy of the sort that prevents escalation to actual war, just like the other major European powers. And like the Tories, they don’t back up their tough talk with serious, immediately implementable plans to rebuild the necessary industrial base to actually enable a war effort if, heaven forbid, it was necessary.
If, as a cabinet minister, Heidi was serious about getting things done, she would follow the advice of the young MP for Milton Keynes who was on Today earlier, suggesting that the government should be bulldozing the institutional blocks that protect the status quo (my words), getting boots on the ground and actually doing things that will demonstrate that the government is serious about the necessary change that people had hoped for from a Labour government.
Clearly a “Labour Together” government is a useless enterprise.
Agreed.
Heidi A was utterly dreadful.
She even had the brass neck to say that she (and the cabinet) agreed with the diagnosis of the country’s problems articulated in Hannah’s speech. Only the Green Party’s solutions are “Fairytales”. Unlike the Government who are already doing all the right things. We just need to stick with them and change will come.
LINO – Gorton and Denton don’t believe you and neither do the rest of us.
Thank you Hannah and the Greens for caring about people
and making hope possible again.
Alexander outright lied saying Greens will take UK out of NATO, “…cosying up to Putin “!
Down at the level of the untruths and misrepresentations I often hear regarding what their activists say on the doorstep when canvassing. On national radio morning prime time…
Great speech.
Matt Goodwin shaking his head and rolling his eyes, smiling when the the Muslim attack was mentioned is not on. I’m glad I was not there, I’d have dragged him of the stage. He should not have been in camera shot.
That creature is a Grade 1 tosser.
Just watched Goodwin on the news. What a horrendous human being.
Hannah Spencer a wonderful contrast in every way.
Brilliant news to wake up to. Looking forward to seeing how politics will change.
It’s good to see the point made that it’s not about people being worried about being left behind, it’s that many people have been left behind, and want to catch up with the reward their effort deserves.
It’s been too long seeing Reform blaming immigrants, it’s the rich increasing inequality. It’s billionaires demanding unreasonably minimal taxation whilst gaining the equivalent (or more) to winning the lottery every month.
Good on the Greens for directing people’s attention the right way, towards a positive vision based around the idea that our economy can (and should) support hard work being fairly rewarded.
Thanks for posting. Excellent speech. I couldn’t help thinking that Hannah Spencer may be a Green Party member, but there spoke the voice of Old Labour, the Party that brought Council Housing under the Wheatley Act, and the NHS under Nye Bevan and Attlee, and much besides thereafter, when it still had its head screwed on properly, instead if in its present Righr Wing facing rictus.
But I mustn’t take away the credit from the Greens, who have seen the need, and responded magnificently. A much needed movement in the battle for the politics of care.q
Much to agree with
Oh, the sick irony:
Heidi Alexander on R4 Today “the morning after” saying how she gave a similar speech when she was elected in Swindon in 2024!
Yes, fine words… But you folk then got into government with a huge majority (and will have, sadly, for some time)… So what have you DONE?!
Two Budget cycles already, still same old same old neoliberal austerity (and she admitted ‘people aren’t seeing the benefit yet’… cue hollow laughter, BBC?!)
Much to agree with