A little light relief for the weekend. I’ve been reading David Steel’s party conference speech from 1976, as you do:
I have been leader of the Party for less than three months. During this short period I have not lacked advice on what I should do … These submissions have ranged from the useful through the exotic – such as the plea that I could end the nation’s drought by advocating the selected dropping of atomic bombs in Greenland – to the downright byzantine, such as that from the lady who was convinced that I could be sitting in Number 10 within the year if only I could persuade the Liberal Party to adopt as part of its manifesto the introduction of licensing for cats.
Yes, well.
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go back to your igloos and prepare for winter!
xD =D
Don’t forget he also said, that he was the first Liberal Leader for 50 years to say go back to your constituency and prepare for government.
The opinion polls gave him the chance to say it.
Where can we all get a copy
PS Go back to your constituencies was somewhat latter
“Go back to your constituencies” would have seemed a lot more prescient had Galtieri not invaded the Falklands.