Great speech. First time, I think, that I have watched a whole hour of a contemporary political speech without becoming irritated or bored. Un patronising, genuinely funny at times, moral but not self righteous. And good politicing at the beginning, trying to draw his leadership rivals closer. And that second hand jacket he insists on wearing actually goes quite nicely with a dark red tie.
Yeah, it was a great speech. Not that you would have known it from the comments afterwards. The prize prick on Politics Today described it as being "incredibly underwhelming, and I had very low expectations to begin with" or something to that effect. And he was a Labour spin doctor!
Great speech. First time, I think, that I have watched a whole hour of a contemporary political speech without becoming irritated or bored. Un patronising, genuinely funny at times, moral but not self righteous. And good politicing at the beginning, trying to draw his leadership rivals closer. And that second hand jacket he insists on wearing actually goes quite nicely with a dark red tie.