{"id":190,"date":"2006-02-07T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T10:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/02\/22\/transcript-of-mings-podcast-on-the-day-the-ballot-papers-went-out\/"},"modified":"2006-02-22T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T10:54:51","slug":"transcript-of-mings-podcast-on-the-day-the-ballot-papers-went-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/02\/07\/transcript-of-mings-podcast-on-the-day-the-ballot-papers-went-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript of Ming’s podcast on the day the ballot papers went out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the day the ballot papers go out and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for the membership to determine who they think is best qualified to take the Party forward, building on Charles Kennedy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remarkably successful legacy of the best result for over eighty years for our Party.<\/p>\n

When deciding who should lead the Party I think people are entitled to look for three different things. Energy, I believe I have that in abundance. Values, I joined the Liberal Party under Joe Grimond and my values are still the values of Liberalism and Liberal democracy. And judgement, on that I point to the position I took in relation to the Iraq war and the extent to which we have continued to pursue the Prime Minister because we believe the war was brought to us on a flawed prospectus and has done great damage to our reputation and indeed brought great instability to the Middle East. <\/p>\n

But the Party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been through some turbulent times, of that there is no doubt. But going round the hustings as I have been with both Simon Hughes and Chris Huhne it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perfectly clear that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an appetite for getting back to the political agenda and if we do that among ourselves then we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have no difficulty in reconnecting with the people of the United Kingdom. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m up for the fight and I hope you will think so too.<\/p>\n

I believe leadership\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about taking responsibility and discharging it. But I also believe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about making sure that the best talents in the Party get the best opportunity. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got an extraordinary generation of young men and women who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve joined the Parliamentary Party here at Westminster in the two elections of 2001 and 2005. It will be my task as a leader with experience and maturity along with people like Vincent Cable who share the same qualities to make sure that we have a proper blend of youth and experience. That way we will best take advantage of the huge political opportunity that lies in front of us.<\/p>\n

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Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the day the ballot papers go out and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for the membership to determine who they think is best qualified to take the Party forward, building on Charles Kennedy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remarkably successful legacy of the best result for over eighty years for our Party. When deciding who should lead the Party I think people are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}