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英国工党领袖埃德米利班德在工党年会英语演讲稿 Its great to be in Brighton. AndI want to start by thanking somebody from the bottom ofmy heart for thekindest of words. Not Justine oh, I would like to thank her, a round ofapplausefor Justine please, ladies and gentlemen. Not my mum but a womancalled Ella Philips. It waslocal election day, Ella rode past me on her bike,she fell off its not funny! I helped her upand afterwards she called mesomething I had never been called before: she said I was anaction hero. Whyare you laughing? She said I was an action hero who mysteriously appearedoutof nowhere. And she said, What added to all the confusion was that Ed wasactuallyattractive and not geeky at all. I promise you, she did say that. Shesaid, Even the way heappeared was suave. I dont know why you find this sofunny, friends. He was dressed casually,but he had style. Sounds quite me,doesnt it? Now I was pretty pleased with this, as you cantell, until somethingdawned on me: Ella was concussed. She was badly concussed. In fact, sheherselfsaid, I was seeing things because I was still in quite a daze. Well, Ella,you are notkidding. But let me say, Ella, if you are watching today, thankyou, you have made my year. I want to start today with thesimplest of thoughts. An idea that has inspired change forgenerations. Thebelief that helped drive us out of the Second World War and into thatgreatreforming government of 1945. An ambition that is more important now than ithas beenfor decades. An emotion that is felt across our country at kitchentables every night. A feelingthat is so threatening to those who want to keepthings as they are. Words that are so basicand yet so powerful, so modest andyet so hard to believe. Six simple words that say: Britaincan do better thanthis. Britain can do better than this; we are Britain, we are better thanthis.Are you satisfied with a country where people are working for longer for less,year afteryear? Are you satisfied with a country divided losing touch with thethings we value the most?Are you satisfied with a country that shuts out thevoices of millions of ordinary people andlistens only to the powerful? Are yousatisfied with a country standing apart as two nations? WellI am notsatisfied. We are Britain, we are better than this. And we have to rebuild anewOneNation. An economy built on your success, a society based on your values, apolitics that hearsyour voice dash; rich and poor alike dash; accepting their responsibilitiestop each other. One Nation, weare going to make it happen, and today I amgoing to tell you how. I want to start with leadership.Leadership is about risks and difficult decisions. It is aboutthose lonelymoments when you have to peer deep into your soul. I ran for the leadership ofthisparty, it was really hard for my family, but I believed that Labour neededto turn the page and Iwas the best person to do it. I when I became leader Ifaced a decision about whether weshould stand up to Rupert Murdoch. It wasntthe way things had been done in the past, but itwas the right thing to do so Idid it. And together we faced them down. And then the otherweek I faced aneven bigger decision about whether the country should go to war. Thebiggestdecision any leader faces, the biggest decision any Parliament faces, thebiggestdecision any party faces. All of us were horrified by the appallingchemical weapons attacks inSyria, but when I stood on the stage three yearsago, when I became your leader, I said wewould learn the lessons of Iraq. Itwould have been a rush to war, it wasnt the right thing forour country. So Isaid no. It was the right thing to do. You see, the real test of leadership isnotwhether you stand up to the weak, thats easy; its whether you stand up tothe strong andknow who to fight for. And you know I am reminded of a storyback when I was starting out,standing to be an MP in Doncaster, with a womancalled Molly Roberts. Molly was in herseventies, and there I was candidlytrying to get her vote, sitting in her front from sipping amug of tea. And shesaid to me, How can you, who werent brought up in this area,possiblyunderstand the lives of people here, their hopes and their struggles? It wasthe rightquestion, and here is the answer. For me it lies in the values I wasbrought up with. You see inmy house it was my mum that taught me these values.About the importance of reaching out alistening to people, of understandingtheir hopes and their struggles. She is the most patient,generous person Ihave met in my whole life. And she taught me never to be contemptuousofothers, never to be dismissive of their struggle. Now she was teaching me alesson of life. Andsome people will say, ah yeah but you have to leave decencybehind when it comes to politics.Well I say they are wrong, because only ifyou reach out and listen can you do the mostimportant thing a leader can do,the most important qualification in my view for being PrimeMinister. Only thenwill you have the ability to walk in the shoes of others and know who tofightfor, whoever your opponent, however powerful they are, guided by the only thingthatmatters: your sense of what is right. This is what I believe, this iswhere I stand, this is theleadership Britain needs. And when I think about who weneed to fight for I think about all the people I have met overthe last year. Ithink of the people Britain and their enormous and extraordinary spirit. Ithinkof our troops, serving so bravely all around the world. Let us paytribute to them today. Youknow I have seen in Afghanistan those young men andwomen, young men and women who areyoung enough to be my son or daughterserving our country, and it is a truly humblingexperience. And the events of thelast few days in Kenya remind us of the importance of beingever-vigilantagainst terrorism at home and around the world. I think of the brave menandwomen of our police force, who serve with so little credit each and every dayfor our country.Let us thank them for what they do. And then I think of allthe people I have met over the lastyear. During the local election campaign Idid something unusual. I went to town centres,market squares and high streetsand I stood on a pallet dash; not a soapbox, but a pallet. And Italked to peopleabout their lives. I remember this town meeting I had in Cleverly. It wasjustcoming to the end of the meeting and this bloke wandered up. He was incrediblyangry. Itsa family show so I wont exactly repeat what he said. He was soangry he wouldnt give me hisname, but he did tell me his story about how hespent the last ten years looking after hisdisabled wife, and then another fouryears looking for a job and not finding one. He was angryabout immigration andsome people in the crowd booed him. But actually he wasnt prejudiced,he justfelt the economy didnt work for him. And then I think about the two markettraders Imet in Chesterfield, standing by their stalls, out in all weathers,working all hours, and they saidlook this country just doesnt seem to berewarding our hard work and effort. There seem to besome people gettingsomething for nothing. This society is losing touch with our values. Andthen Ithink about this beautiful sunny spring day I spent in Lincoln. And the face inthe crowd,this young woman who said she was an ambulance controller. So proudto be working for ourNational Health Service. And so proud too of her youngson. Because she was a single parent,nineteen years old, and what she said tome was, Why does everybody portray me as a burdenon the system? I am not aburden on the system, I am going out, I am doing the right thing forthecountry, why doesnt anyone listen to my voice? And then I think about thisscaffolder I metjust around the corner from where I live. I was just comingback from a local caf Id been at. Hestopped in me the street, he said to me,Wheres your bodyguard? I said I dont have one,but thats another story. Hetold me his story. And what he said to me was look, I go out, I dothe work, Igo all around the country, again out in all weathers, I earn a decent wage, butI stillcant make ends meet. And he said to me, Is anyone ever going to doanything about thosegas and electric bills that just go up and up, faster thanI can earn a living? He wantedsomeone to fight for him. Now if you listen tothese stories dash; four of millions of the stories of ourcountry dash; and you haveyour own, and your friends and family, what do you learn? All of thesepeoplelove Britain, they embody its great spirit, but they all believe that Britaincan do betterthan this. Today I say to them and millions of others youreright, Britain can do better thanthis, Britain must do better than this,Britain will do better than this with a government thatfights for you. But for Britain to do better thanthis weve got to understand why we got here, why thingsare so tough at themoment even while they tell you there is a recovery and why unless weputthings right it will only be a recovery for the few. Now what Im about to tellyou is the mostimportant thing Im going to say today about what needs tochange about our country. Forgenerations in Britain when the economy grew themajority got better off. And then somewherealong the way that vital linkbetween the growing wealth of the country and your family financeswas broken.This is, this goes beyond one party or one government. It is more important toyouthan which party is in power, even more important than that. You see, when Iwas growing up inthe 1980s, I saw the benefits of growing prosperity, peopleable to buy a house, a car, even asecond car, go on a foreign holiday theirgrandparents would never have dreamed of. Not spendall their hours at work,able to spend time with kids, not working all the hours that god sends,have asecure pension in retirement and also believe that their kids would have abetter life thanthem. That feels a long way away from where Britain is todaydoesnt it and that is because it is.You see, somewhere along the way thatlink got broken. They used to say a rising tide lifts allboats, now the risingtide just seems to lift the yachts. Now I say this to the people of Britain. IfIwere you I wouldnt even take a second look at a political party unless theymake this theircentral defining purpose because your future depends on it.Your childrens future depends on it.Britains future depends on it. I say weare Britain we can do better than this. Now I have got a question for youladies and gentlemen, do the Tories get it? Audience: No Oh come on, I didnt hear you, dothe Tories get it? Audience: No Ok that is better. They dont getit do they. I want to say this. I understand why three anda half years agosome people might have thought that David Cameron did get it and that iswhypeople voted for him at the last general election. But they voted for changeand I dontbelieve they got the change that they were voting for. Let me justexplain it this way: nextweek we are going to see David Cameron resuming hislap of honour for how brilliantly hesdone as Prime Minister. Claiming creditfor his enormous achievements, how he has saved theeconomy as they put it. Nodoubt hell even be taking off his shirt and flinging it into thecrowdexpecting adoration from the British people like he did recently on holiday andmaybe Ishould make this promise while Im about it, if I become Prime MinisterI wont take my shirt offin public, I mean it is just not necessary is it.Ill try and keep the promise. Anyway, back toDavid Cameron, so he is going onthis lap of honour, everything is brilliant, hes saved theeconomy, GeorgeOsborne, he deserves the garlands as well, you know, arent theybrilliant.Come on. The slowest recovery in one hundred years. One million youngpeoplelooking for work. More people on record working part-time who want full timework. Morepeople than for a generation out of work for longer. The longestfall in living standards since1870. That is not worthy of a lap of honour.That is worthy of a lap of shame and that is therecord of this government. He does have one record thoughbut I dont think it credits a lap of honour. He has beenPrime Minister for 39months and in 38 of those months wages have risen more slowly thanprices. Thatmeans your living standards falling year, after year, after year. So in 2019youll beasking am I better off now than I was five years ago? And we alreadyknow the answer formillions of families will be no. Youve made the sacrifices,but you havent got the rewards. Youwere the first into the recession but youare the last one out. Now of course it would have takentime to recover fromthe global financial crisis whoever was in power. But when these Toriestellyou that the pain will be worth the gain, dont believe them. They cant solvethe cost ofliving crisis and here is why. The cost of living crisis isnt anaccident of David Cameronseconomic policy it is in his economic policy. Letme explain why. You see he believes in this thingcalled the global race, butwhat he doesnt tell you is that he thinks for Britain to win theglobal raceyou have to lose, lower wages, worse terms and conditions, fewer rights atwork. ButBritain cant win a race for the lowest wages against countries wherewages rates are pennies anhour and the more we try the worse things will getfor you. Britain cant win a race for thefewest rights at work against thesweat shops of the world and the more we try the worse thingswill get for you.And Britain cant win a race for the lowest skilled jobs against countrieswherekids leave school at the age of 11. And the more we try the worse thingswill get for you. It is arace to the bottom. Britain cannot and should not winthat race. You see it is not the lowachievements of these Tories that really gets me. That is badenough. It istheir low aspirations; it is their low aspirations for you. It is their lowaspirations forBritain but their high hopes for those at the top. The Citybonuses are back. Up 82% in Aprilalone thanks to the millionaires tax cut. Sowhen they tell you the economy is healing, thateverything is fixed, justremember, they are not talking about your life, they are talking abouttheirfriends at the top. That is who they are talking about; it is high hopes forthem. And everyso often you know the mask slips doesnt it. The other day aman they call Lord Howell, he was Ithink their advisor on fracking at onepoint There is nothing funny about that. He said it waswrong to frack in someareas but it was ok in others, it was ok in the North East of Englandbecausehe said, and I quote it was full of desolate and uninhabited areas. In onecasual asidedismissing one whole region of the country. Lets tell theseTories about the North East ofEngland and every other part of Britain. Peoplego out to work. They love their kids. They bringup their families. They carefor their neighbours. They look out for each other. They are proud oftheircommunities. They are proud of their communities. They hope for the future. TheTories callthem inhabitants of desolate areas. We call them our friends, ourneighbours, the heroes of ourcountry. They are fed up of a government thatdoesnt understand their lives and a PrimeMinister who cannot walk in theirshoes. We are Britain, we are better than this. Now, to make Britain better wehave got to win a race to the top, not a race to the bottom.A race to the topwhich means that other countries will buy our goods the companies will comeandinvest here and that will create the wealth and jobs we need for the future butwe are notgoing to be able to do it easily. It is going to be tough and let mejust say this friends. You thinkopposition is tough, you should trygovernment. It is going to be tough; it is not going to beeasy. And Im notgoing to stand here today and pretend to you it is. We are going to havetostick to strict spending limits to get the deficit down. We are not going to beable to spendmoney we dont have and frankly if I told you we were going toyou wouldnt believe me, thecountry wouldnt believe me and they would beright not to believe me. But we can make adifference. We can win the race tothe top and let me tell you how. It is about the jobs wecreate, it is aboutthe businesses we support, it is about the talents we nurture, it is aboutthewages we earn and it is about the vested interests that we take on. Let mestart with thejobs of the future. The environment is a passion of mine becausewhen I think about my twokids who are 2 and 4 at the moment and not talkingthat much about the environment, moreinterested in The Octonauts. Theres aplug. In 20 years time theyll say to me were you thelast generation not toget climate change or the first generation to get it? That is thequestiontheyll be asking. But it is not just aboutenvironmental care. It is also about the jobs we create in the future.You seesome people say, including George Osborne, that we cant afford to haveenvironmentalat a time like this. He is dead wrong. We cant afford not tohave an environmentalcommitment at a time like this. That is why Labour willhave a world leading commitment ingovernment to take all of the carbon out ofour energy by 2030. A route map to one million newgreen jobs in our country.That is how we win the race to the top. And to win that race to thetop we havealso got to do something else, weve got to support the businesses of thefuture.Now many of the new jobs in the future will come from a large number ofsmall businesses not asmall number of large businesses. And this is reallyimportant. If you think 15 years ahead, therate of change and dynamism is sogreat that most of the new jobs that will be being done willbe by companiesthat dont yet exist. Now that changes the priorities for government. Whenthisgovernment came to office, since they came to office they cut taxes for largebusiness by ound;6bn but raised taxes on small businesses. Now I dont think thatis