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I I'm guessing that there's not many

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Tories in this audience I might be wrong

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but that's my guess and I sometimes

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think that Alex salmon is a stuck record

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talking about the Tories so I want you

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to remember

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something I want you to

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remember the dark

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Decades of the thater idea and I want

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you to remember how that

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came

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in

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1979 35 years

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ago a cold winter

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night when James cagan's government was

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getting stronger the economy was getting

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stronger the currency was getting

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stronger the violance of payments was

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getting stronger and labor had a plan I

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was a labor organizer at the very time

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the if that government could only have

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survived until later that

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year or early the next year a labor

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government could have been reelected

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under James cigan who was one of the

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more popular Prime Ministers we ever had

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I happen to think he was a fine man I

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knew him well what

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happened the SNP tabled a vote of no

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confidence in the labor government in

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1979 the Tories seeing as a canary in

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the

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mine

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realized that with the snp's support

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they could actually get caligan out in

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the winter of

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1979 and so they tabled a motion of no

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confidence and at

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10:00 staggering out of the House of

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Commons bars because was for the 11 SN

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pmps every night was Bun's night believe

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me every night was Bun's

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night staggering out of the House of

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Commons bars swaying in the non-existent

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breeze they followed Margaret Thatcher

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into the division Lobby to defeat the

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labor government provoke a general

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election which Thatcher won and then

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destroyed Scotland destroyed industrial

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England laid waste to the country

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Millions unemployed from which we've

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never recovered so the next time you

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hear Alex salmon and the SNP talking

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about the torist remember who brought

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Margaret ther to power here I just had

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one just one one we foot on to that

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because they like to talk about oil you

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know and reports and things like that

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from the 70s but you know when they did

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that in

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1979 they did so in the full knowledge

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that the T Manifesto which was obviously

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going to be introduced as a result of

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her actions included the abolition of

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the British national Oil Corporation the

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state so now when they talk about Norway

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the Norwegian oil model is based on stat

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oil a state Oil Company the British oil

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model under labor was based in the

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British national Oil Corporation in 1979

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the S&P voted with the Tories to bring

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down the labor government in the certain

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knowledge that the British national Oil

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Corporation would be privatized and at

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that point the whole structure of the

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Nory industry changed so beware the

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crocodile tears they share the

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responsibility for ensuring that Britain

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went on a totally different path in the

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North Sea from

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Norway brilliant and one last point then

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before we break and Willie mckelvie can

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bear me out on this more

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than other than my mother anyone alive

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today and I'm seeing this as somebody

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was kicked out the labor

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party yeah the they kicked me out the

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labor party and abolished my

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constituency just in

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case everything that's good that we've

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ever

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had we got through

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Labor everything

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everything not everything that labor did

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was good some of the things labor did

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was bad but everything that was good we

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got through labor labor in the workplace

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through the Trade union

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labor in the town hall or labor in

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government I was born in a slum 12a

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athel Street in an

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attic the roof sloping so

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sharply that I couldn't that couldn't

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fit a CAU in the attic I slept as a baby

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in a

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drawer in one room an outside toilet

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shared I know you think it's funny but

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it's true sh an outside toilet shared

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with five other families the seat was

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always

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warm that slum was cleared by labor we

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moved into a brand new Council house

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given to us by labor I had a school at

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the bottom of the road built by labor a

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park at the top of the road built by

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labor my father and Willie mckelvie

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worked in a factory NCR from Dayton Ohio

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sent to dunde ordered to dunde by labor

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I had a Health Center at the end of the

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road created by the labor invention

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unique in the world at that time of a

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National Health Service I got free sco

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milk I got free orange juice free cod

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liver oil free malol to build me up I'm

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going to need to stop taking

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that all of it from labor if I'd been as

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clever as Brian I would have gone to a

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free University and been given a grant

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to enjoy it with from labor so did any

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of that come from the SNP the SNP

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opposed all of these things in fact long

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before there ever was

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oil they wanted us to be

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independent when Hitler well it's a fact

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when Hitler was at the channel ports the

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leaders of the SNP were

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ined because they said it was England's

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War they didn't give a damn about the

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unity of the working people now the

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point I'm making is this all these good

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things we got through labor but they

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were only possible because we were a big

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nation of tens of millions they wouldn't

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have been possible as a small country of

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5 million you need a critical mass of

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people in order to confront

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capital in order to order companies

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where they must locate in order to build

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a National Health Service and all the

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other good things that we've got don't

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throw it all away in September that's

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what I'm here to say to you we'll be

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back in 10 minutes thanks very

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much