It was an occasion, certainly. (Can you imagine Mr Cameron or Mr Brown attracting 80,000 people to Wembley or Hampden? Even if Sheryl Crow was doing the warm-up?)
A bit too glitzy for my taste, but Americans seem to like that stuff. And our politicians can only dream of being allowed to produce a stream of uncosted pledges which would simultaneously deliver tax cuts and increased public spending. Nevertheless, I cannot deny that it was thoughtfully put together and beautifully delivered.
You may read the text of his speech here.
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Well, to be fair, the population of the US of A is 303 million and the population of the UK is 60 million, so they'd only need to bring in a fifth - a mere 16,000 ...
Or in Scotland with a population of 5 million, one sixtieth of the US total - 1,333 - about the size of an SNP conference ...
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