Summary
POLITICAL speeches are often said to be like a huge steer's horns: a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Labour's welfare guru Ernest Bevin never warmed to the art. To him, speeches were a necessary inconvenience of the job. "I stand up when he nudges me. I sit down when they pull my coat, " the great man once said.See the full content of this document
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Clinton's Writers Set to Bring Out the President in the Chancellor James Cusick On Gordon Brown's Speeches Getting the 'West Wing' Treatment Powerplay
So what would Bevin have made of Gordon Brown's decision last week to hire some of the finest political speechwriting skills on offer in Washington DC and let them do for him what they apparently did for Bill Clinton's oratory?
And what would the stand-speak-sit Bevin think of another government job at seniormod...See the full content of this document
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