Just a quick note today – to comment that for the first time in as long as I care to remember, I stood up to applaud after a speech.
Everything about the presentation was right – the use of rhetoric, the passion, the articulation, the fact that the speaker understood microphones and how to use them, the fact that he didn’t look like he had his speech written down verbatim (I couldn’t see if he did or not)….
… and the content of course. It’s hard to argue with the sentiment of a speech that says, basically, “Let us be the generation that provides a free school place for every child in the world, everywhere. Let it be us.”
And who was this miracle man? Gordon Brown. Normally a man noted for his somewhat taciturn nature but certainly on this subject he was passionate! He combined all the technical skills that you’d expect with an experience, trained political heavy-weight, with the raw excitement of a committed man.
That’s the way to do it.
