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.
What a great speech. So relieved.
“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.
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.
Brilliant news to wake up to. Looking forward to seeing how politics will change.