Rod Liddle's speech to SDP's 2024 Manchester Conference.

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@louish5068 Ай бұрын

Im a 22 year old, I reluctantly voted reform in july purely because of immigration. But I am more economically left. I believe you didnt run in my constituency, But i also hadnt even heard of you at the time. Now that I have, I agree with most of the party's manifesto, with only a few minor issues. I now live in Japan, so I can't get involved with the party in a huge way, but if I ever return to the UK I will definitely be supporting the SDP towards hopefully achieving government one day

@jackd4393 Ай бұрын

Great speech

@savethebeesplantherbs8809 Ай бұрын

The path is clear SDP walk it with confidence and esteem lets us heal our society

@robinlambert3917 Ай бұрын

Rod eloquent & Witty as per usual .Great stuff

@IanGillespie-ze6ek Ай бұрын

I like Rod, talking sense, and very witty, but Reform for me

@T40Tommy Ай бұрын

Good speech from Rod. Basically this is me- economically left and but I live in the real world, so “ social conservative” if you will. SDP is the “ sensible “ party

@pwcfuster Ай бұрын

Excellent.

@thenookishome Ай бұрын

Go Rod !

@gillh7534 Ай бұрын

Good speech Rod, agree with your sentiments on Labour. Farage appears to dislike the daily grind of constituency representation, he prefers the spotlight and being PM would be too onerous. Lowe seems to be doing the heavy lifting for Reform and asking the questions the opposition should be asking..

@angusmcangus7914 Ай бұрын

Sorry, Rod, you’re wrong about Reform. Keep your eye on Rupert Lowe, not Nigel Farage.

@emailsph3282 Ай бұрын

Yes, Rod hasn't got the call right on popular support for Reform UK. The SDP is unfortunately the lame duck as regards parliamentary prospects.

@Hereward47 18 күн бұрын

@@emailsph3282Totally agree, they have lost all momentum now. Hearing Clouston trying to spin having zero MPs returned from the last election was the final nail in the coffin for me supporting the SDP

@andrewmorton3344 Ай бұрын

The bookies disagree with Liddle about the chances of Farage getting into number ten. He has a very realistic chance.

@emailsph3282 Ай бұрын

Kemi outflank Farage? Pretty unlikely I think. Farage has a 35yr track record of revolutionary success, Kemi has a couple of years of being an appeaser in the last Tory fiasco. Think Rod's betting odds are a long way off on that one.

@tobyroy336 Ай бұрын

I've always been conservative but to the left. Centrism stole the show and dismantled social democracy, handing power over to global elites whilst steadily negating the rule of law. Sadly, the SDP have shared platforms with the right purely to bolster numbers; a kind of anti-establishment punk maelstrom. The party needs to be more than just an alternative voice. It needs to be significantly more coherent in the public arena. Having said that, your policies have always been on the money, but just sadly lost in the ether of mainstream media. A lot of people are social democrats, "but they don't know it", is an excuse to harbour values beyond conservatism, and just hope something can be worked out. I really want to be a social democrat. My values are western and centred around Christ (even though I fail at that). I believe I am a compassionate human being, though I barely see that reflected in the likes of Rod Liddle. He may however be a useful Boris like tool to get the message across. Until the SDP have a coherent presence in the public domain, they will just be seen as a lighter version of the BNP. Currently, this is the path that many in the conservative left throughout Eastern Europe and now the west are tip toeing around. It's the zeitgeist, nothing more.

@Oak_Knight Ай бұрын

A good speech, but sadly wrong in some ways. Kemi cannot outflank reform because she is not willing to address the primary concerns that most people have and indeed was part of the problem. She is too keen to dip into identity politics (to say nothing of her being under the wing of by Michal Gove) and was part of the problem when it came to immigration. Robert Jenrick could easily have outflanked Reform, especially with Tice and Farage seemingly being a bit weak on certain issues, but he wasn't elected. And while Rod may be correct about some Reform activists, I don't think that is representative of most of them. Don't get me wrong - I would cheer if the SDP was a bigger and more influential party and was in the place that Reform is now. But they simply aren't.

@davidbettney785 Ай бұрын

Good speech

@benphilips9918 Ай бұрын

While I agree with Rod's war on woke, I'm not sure returning to seventies-style state socialism is the answer. We tried it once and it ended in tears. We need to cut tax not raise it even higher. We need to cut the size of government not expand it. It's been tried before and it failed. Dramatically. We all know the definition of madness: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. As for Reform? We shall see. Many from the left and right feel betrayed and are looking elsewhere. Much as they did in the early 1980's when they joined the SDP!

@plechaim Ай бұрын

If you prefer right wing economics then maybe reform is more your thing