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give more children a chance, back more businesses, help create more jobs.And I'm clear about how that job will best get done.It requires a strong Government, with a clear mandate, that is accountable for what it promises and yes,what it delivers.And let me tell everyone here what that means.When the election comes, we won't be campaigning for a coalition......

we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government - because that is whatour country needs.CONCLUSIONYou don't do this job to be popular.You do it because you love your country.I do the best I can. And for me, it comes back to some simple things.Country first. Do what's decent. Think long-term.There's an old story that's told about a great hall in Oxford, near my constituency.490For hundreds of years it's stood there - held up with vast oak beams.In the 19th century, those beams needed replacing.And you know what they found?500 years before, someone had thought.

those beams will need replacing one day.so they planted some oak trees.Just think about that.Centuries had passed. Columbus had reached America. Gravity had been discovered.and when those oaks were needed, they were ready.Margaret Thatcher once said: "We are in the business of planting trees for our children andgrandchildren or we have no business being in politics at all."That is what we are doing today.Not just making do and mending.but making something better.Since I got to my feet, almost a hundred children have been born across this country.Children of wealth - and children of none.Children of parents in work - and children of parents out of work.For every single one of those new-born babies let us pledge today that we will build something better.a land of opportunity.A country built on that enduring principle, seared in our hearts, that if you work hard, save, play by therules and do your fair share - then nothing should stand in your way.A new economy.A new welfare system.A new set of values in our schools.Not just fixing the mess we inherited - but building something better.We've got a year and a half 'til that election...a year and a half until Britain makes a choice: move forward to something better or go back tosomething worse.but I believe that if this party fights with all we have, then this country will make the right choice.Because we always have before.Whenever we've had the choice of giving in to some shabby compromise or pushing forward tosomething better we've said: this is Great Britain.the improbable hero of history.the country that doesn't give in, that doesn't give up.that knows there's no such thing as destiny - only our determination to succeed.So I look to our future and I'm confident.There are battles to fight but beyond this hall are the millions of hardworking people who renew thegreat in Great Britain every day.In the way they work and the way they give and raise their families.These are the people we have alongside us....

together we've made it this far...... together we'll finish the job we've started...... together we'll build that land of opportunity.Leader's speech, Birmingham 2012David Cameron (Conservative)Location: BirminghamCameron, D.

Leader’s speech, Birmingham 2012 [Электронный ресурс] / D. Cameron. – Режимдоступа: http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive.htm?speech=324491In May 2010, this party stood on the threshold of power for the first time in more than a decade. Weknew then that it was not just the ordinary duties of office that we were assuming. We were enteringinto Government at a grave moment in the modern history of Britain.At a time when people felt uncertainty, even fear.

Here was the challenge: To make an insolvent nationsolvent again. To set our country back on the path to prosperity that all can share in. To bring homeour troops from danger while keeping our citizens safe from terror. To mend a broken society.Two and a half years later of course I can't tell you that all is well, but I can say this: Britain is on theright track.As Prime Minister it has fallen to me to say some hard things and to help our country face some hardtruths. All of my adult life, whatever the difficulties, the British people have at least been confidentabout one thing.

We have thought we can pay our way.That we can earn our living as a major industrial country ...… and we will always remain one.It has fallen to us to say - we cannot assume that any longer.Unless we act, unless we take difficult, painful decisions, unless we show determination andimagination, Britain may not be in the future what it has been in the past.Because the truth is this.

We are in a global race today. And that means an hour of reckoning forcountries like ours. Sink or swim. Do or decline.To take office at such a moment is a duty and an honour …… and we will rise to the challenge.Today I’m going to set out a serious argument to this country about how we do that. How we competeand thrive in this world …… how we can make sure in this century, like the ones before, Britain is on the rise. Nothing mattersmore. Every battle we fight, every plan we make, every decision we take is to achieve that end……Britain on the rise.BRITAIN CAN DELIVERThough the challenge before us is daunting, I have confidence in our country.

Why? Because Britaincan deliver. We can do big things.We saw it this summer. The Jubilee, the Olympics, the Paralympics …… the best country in the world …… and let’s say it: with our Queen, the finest Head of State on earth.I was trying to think of my favourite moment. Was it telling President Hollande that no, we hadn’tcheated at the cycling, we didn’t have rounder wheels, it was just that we peddled faster than theFrench?No … for me it was seeing that young woman who swam her heart out for years …… nine training sessions a week, two hours a time.My best moment was putting that gold medal around the neck of Ellie Simmonds.

And I am so gratefulfor what all those Paralympians did.When I used to push my son Ivan around in his wheelchair, I always thought that some people saw thewheelchair, not the boy.Today more people would see the boy and not the wheelchair – and that’s because of what happenedhere this summer.And the Olympics showed us something else. Whether our athletes were English, Scottish, Welsh orfrom Northern Ireland …they draped themselves in one flag.Now, there’s one person who didn’t like that …and he’s called Alex Salmond.I’m going to see him on Monday to sort that referendum on independence by the end of 2014.

Thereare many things I want this coalition to achieve but what could matter more than saving our UnitedKingdom …let’s say it: we’re better together and we’ll rise together – so let’s fight that referendumwith everything we’ve got.492There are so many people to thank for this summer. Those that won the bid, those that built the stadia,that ran the Games …and of course: the man who put a smile on our faces …… the zinger on the zip-wire …… the Conservative Mayor of London: our Boris Johnson.And those Games-Makers.

You know, I’ve spent three years trying to explain the Big Society … theydid it beautifully in just three weeks.There is another group of people who stepped into the breach this summer – and we in this party neverforget them. Our armed forces have been on the ground in Afghanistan for over ten years now. 433men and women have made the ultimate sacrifice. Just last weekend there was a memorial service forone of the fallen, and the eulogy said this:“All that they had they gave. All that they might have had. All that they had ever been.

All that theymight ever have become.”For all those who serve, and their families, I repeat the commitment I made when this Governmentcame to office. By the end of 2014, all UK combat operations in Afghanistan will have come to anend. Nearly all our troops will be home – their country proud, their duty done … and let everyone inthis hall stand and show how profoundly grateful we are for everything they do.CONSERVATIVES CAN DELIVERTo meet the challenges our country faces, we must have confidence in ourselves … confidence as aparty.

We’ve been in office two and a half years now – and we’ve done some big, life-changing things.Just ask Clive Stone, who you saw in a film earlier. I met him years ago, when we were in Opposition.He had cancer and he said to me: the drug I need – it’s out there but they won’t give it to me becauseit’s too expensive …please, if you get in, do something about it.And we have.

A new cancer drugs fund that has got the latest drugs to more than 21,000 people andcounting. There was a reason we could do that. It’s because we made a big decision to protect the NHSfrom spending cuts.No other party made that commitment.Not Labour. Not the Liberal Democrats. Just us – the Conservatives.To all those people who said we’d bring the NHS down ... I say …well, yes, you’ve got a point.I’ll tell you what is down.Waiting lists – down.

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