{"id":78,"date":"2006-01-28T16:55:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/01\/28\/be-proud-of-who-we-are-and-what-we-have-achieved\/"},"modified":"2006-01-30T19:59:53","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:59:53","slug":"be-proud-of-who-we-are-and-what-we-have-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/01\/28\/be-proud-of-who-we-are-and-what-we-have-achieved\/","title":{"rendered":"Be proud of who we are and what we have achieved."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>January 28: Ming Campbell at the Plymouth hustings:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Be proud of who we are and what we have achieved. But the best is yet to come. Not a time for caution and consolidation. Time for confidence and commitment. I am confident. You are committed. Together there should be no limit to our ambition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first official party hustings were held in Plymouth today. Sir Ming Campbell gave a forceful speech at the hustings, setting out five areas for the party&#8217;s future direction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fighting poverty<\/li>\n<li>civil liberties<\/li>\n<li>the environment<\/li>\n<li>internationalism<\/li>\n<li>reviving local democracy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When asked by Sky News if he was confident now that commentators are putting him as the clear front runner, Ming Campbell said: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I take nothing for granted. I am optimistic, but not complacent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When queried about the possibility of the Tory and Labour parties squeezing the Liberal Democrats out at the next election, he answered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Bring them on&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campbellcampaign.org\/2006\/01\/28\/this-movement-has-been-fighting-for-liberalism-for-a-century-and-a-half-such-a-great-cause-is-not-going-to-be-destroyed-in-a-month-and-a-half\/\">Read Ming&#8217;s Plymouth hustings speech in full &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 28: Ming Campbell at the Plymouth hustings: Be proud of who we are and what we have achieved. But the best is yet to come. Not a time for caution and consolidation. Time for confidence and commitment. I am confident. You are committed. Together there should be no limit to our ambition. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}