Here is Paddy’s speech from the rally last night.
OK – now it begins.
What comes next is the fight of our lives.
And it’s going to be tough.
But I am up for it and I know you are too.
As a liberal I am used to fighting against the odds – tell you what, I relish it
And taking a small band of trained and dedicated insurgents onto enemy territory against the odds – its what I was trained for – what I am used to
-its what we have had to do before
-and I am immensely proud, this time, to be doing it with you.
We all know what we have to do.
You’re the best street campaigners in British politics
– now you are going to have to prove it – again.
Now, we have a message – A STRONG ECONOMY, A FAIR SOCIETY; OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE.
Now, we have to take that clarion call onto every door step;
- put it in every leaflet and every tweet;
- repeat it at every meeting and on every broadcast
- because it is only when we are bored with it,
that the public will begin to hear it.
But here’s something else we have to do.
We have to become louder and prouder
Prouder about what we have done.
I love this Party
- fighting with you for the great causes we believe in has been, quite simply, the best thing of my life.
But I do have one complaint.
You’re far too bloody nice!
We’re far too often the quiet, decent, polite, herbivores of British politics.
Well – not me – obviously!
In this party there are far too many TLICK people when you need to be like the TLOCK people.
And if you don’t get that joke – then you need to go to Glee Club more often
We lack something the other Parties have in abundance.
Proper 14 carat gold shits!
Well apart from Chief Whip Don Foster – obviously.
It has to change!
For we have a very great deal to be loud and proud about.
After a hundred years in opposition, we had the courage to take up the burdens of Government at a time when our country faced the greatest existential economic crisis of our time.
Did you REALLY think it would be easy
Of course not.
And it hasn’t been.
But, whatever happens at the next election – we were right to do it.
Be proud of that.
Allow no-one to forget.
Labour walked away from that challenge.
I know.
I was involved.
I asked them.
They weren’t interested in clearing up the mess they had created.
So don’t let Labour blame us for the cuts in public services or the pains of the poor.
It was Labour who left Britain with a burden of debt as big as Greece.
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