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Fantastic, impassioned speech by Gordon Brown to Citizens UK. Great stuff.

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Beachcomber · 04/05/2010 18:34

This was posted by onebatmother on the webchat thread. I think it deserves a thread of its own.

Excellent speech. I challenge the Conservative and LibDem supporting MNers to link to a speech by the other leaders which comes close to this.

Reminds me of the speech he made after Labour won the election in '97. I remember thinking he should have been PM at the time and not Blair.

Onebat says you have to be logged in to FB to see it.

(I didn't have to actually log in perhaps summat automatic happened.)

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wubblybubbly · 04/05/2010 20:51

electric.

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Beachcomber · 04/05/2010 20:09

Atlantis I suspect we don't agree on a lot (of politics) but respect to you for giving respect where it is due.

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Beachcomber · 04/05/2010 20:07

Atlantis I suspect we don't agree on a lot (of politics) but respect to you for giving respect where it is due.

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WilfSell · 04/05/2010 20:01

I'm gonna post, Tweet, email and FB it everywhere I can atlantis And everyone else should too! I can't get out knocking on doors but I can engage in a bit of internet guerilla warfare!

atlantis · 04/05/2010 20:00

I tell you what is missing here, the part just before he got up to speak when the little girl was talking and she started to cry and he instinctively went to get up to comfort her, wasn't sure he should, sat back down, got half back up, sat back down ( I (a conservative!) was screaming at the tv 'go on give her a cuddle!!!) finally he rushed over to her and put his arm around her.

It was the first time i've smiled and not sniggered at Brown.

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Beachcomber · 04/05/2010 19:54

Have just watched again thanks to WilfSell's link.

Am very interested by the Post Office/People's Bank thing - we have something similar sounding in France and it is both popular and respected.

Also love 'great speech/let's march/Roman stuff' at the end.

I'm in total denial about the possibility of a Tory win but if it happens I hope GB is better recognised by the history books than he has been by much of the population he has tried so hard to serve fairly.

God but politics is a bitch.

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FioFio · 04/05/2010 19:42

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atlantis · 04/05/2010 19:36

Wilf, you might want to put that link on the 'is it too late for GB stop step down' thread as well which has a mention of it.

WilfSell · 04/05/2010 19:29

This should be the Youtube link which I think everyone and anyone can watch

And of course SHOULD watch...

janeite · 04/05/2010 19:27

Thanks for the transcript - great speech.

FioFio · 04/05/2010 19:23

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MmeLindt · 04/05/2010 19:20

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It comes from being able to shed his skin regularly.

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MmeLindt · 04/05/2010 19:14

Transcript here

Did you see the interview that Blair gave yesterday, smarmy git. "Vote for the party, not for the person".

I agree that the campaign has been handled badly. It has only been in the last week or so that he has begun to get his message out.

WilfSell · 04/05/2010 19:14

Bloody phone... buffer was supposed to read puffery...

atlantis · 04/05/2010 19:13

I wouldn't rely on the transcript as it was more the passion he showed, he had fire in his belly and he was in his element, the atmosphere of the crowd was brill.

WilfSell · 04/05/2010 19:13

It was brilliant. I'm sure I saw this on YouTube... will search for a link.

When I hear all the nonsense from others, empty words about change, and then see this, I realize again how important it is to believe in stuff. Like equality and fairness and collective responsibility. And how refreshing it is to hear conviction instead of inane buffer. Brilliant.

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Molesworth · 04/05/2010 19:09

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that were the case atlantis.

Dunno about transcripts janeite - there must be one somewhere? Got to dish up dinner now or I'd be googling!

atlantis · 04/05/2010 19:08

Tbh molesworth I wouldn't trust Campbell and Mandelson if my life depended on it if I was Brown, could it possibly be payback from Blair and a way to by-pass Balls and shove Miliband into the top job I wonder?

janeite · 04/05/2010 19:07

Is there a transcript of this anywhere? It keeps cutting out on me.

Molesworth · 04/05/2010 19:06

Totally agree about crap labour campaign team atlantis. I really am starting to wonder if they haven't stitched GB up on purpose

atlantis · 04/05/2010 19:04

I already said on another thread that this is a great speech, If the idiots people who had run his campaign, ie; that dick muppet campbell and the odious prince of darkness meddlesome had book him in to more venues like this instead of those stupid meet and greets a lot more people would have been impressed than are now.

This is Brown at his best and yes he wiped the floor with NC, who repeated the same bankers speech over and over yesterday (he's getting tiring tired now) and DC did very well because it's his Big Society that citizen's UK is aimed at Brown did best.

MmeLindt · 04/05/2010 19:03

Very bad of Cameron's advisers not to have found a couple of spare people to fill those seats.

Hard to compare when we only have the short versions of the speeches.

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Beachcomber · 04/05/2010 18:55

Good on Cameron for facing the empty seats showing his face at Citizens UK. Would be interesting the see the complete speeches of both DC and NC.

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