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Sam Parry ⚔️

@the-speechwriter.com

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I was there at Leicester (wasn’t born). Blades stuff on the The Pinch, and EFL stuff with NTT20. Speechwriter 9-5.

Sam Parry ⚔️ @the-speechwriter.com · 21/11/2024

To a speechwriter, John Prescott was a bit of a unicorn. Knowingly funny, incredibly authentic, and sincere in his beliefs. Obviously, everyone remembers the "punch", and he didn't pull them. But the square brackets at the end of this speech to the Labour Conference in 2000 are memorably epic...

So I say to you all inside this hall, and the wider public beyond it - in our 100th year anniversary, we can be proud of what we've achieved.

The 20th century saw many great advances in technology. The computer, the television, a man on the moon. Even the Jaguar motor car.

But the greatest achievement of the Labour movement was to help shape the 20th century. To combat poverty, a welfare state. To combat squalor, social housing. To combat idleness, full employment. To combat ignorance, universal education. And at the heart of it all was the national health service - based on the socialist principle of treatment on the basis of need, not the ability to pay.

Because we believe every person is of equal worth. We believe that we achieve more by the strength of our common endeavour than we achieve alone. We believe in opportunity for all, in a community where power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not just the few.

We civilised the 20th century with our democratic

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Sam Parry ⚔️ @the-speechwriter.com · 21/11/2024

To a speechwriter, John Prescott was a bit of a unicorn. Knowingly funny, incredibly authentic, and sincere in his beliefs. Obviously, everyone remembers the "punch", and he didn't pull them. But the square brackets at the end of this speech to the Labour Conference in 2000 are memorably epic...

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