Jedi Jamie apologises for his speech

Jamie Reed has apologised for his speech at the "Save Our Services" march on Saturday, but only for taking too long (seventeen minutes, apparently.)

However, if he imagines that the length of his speech was the main reason it went down badly, he is still not on the right page.

Almost all the letters about the Save our Services march in today's Whitehaven News expressed criticism or disagreement with our MP's speech, as did the Leader column, and the opinion piece from former local health manager Brian Early. (My letter was probably the mildest).

None of the letter writers made particular reference to the length of the speech. Examples of the comments were

"It is sad that the local MP is still at the "puppy walking" stage of his career and that he had to deliver an approved Labour party diatribe ... "

"It is great that our local newspaper is in touch with the community on major issues such as this and just a shame that the local MP is not."

"... the party political broadcast by Jamie Reed"

"Mr Reed's promotion of government policy at this protest was not" (welcome).

(The MP's speech was) "the only scuff-mark on an otherwise clean sheet."

What upset people was not just the length, it was that it was a political speech where that was not called for, long on sentiment but short on substance.

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