A Lost Speech Written by One of Obama's Team for Ed Miliband.

The following is an exert from a speech written by President Obama's speech-writing team for Ed Miliband. Apart from its nationalistic tone, which I find difficult to digest, the rest is rather good: - - - "Britain's greatness is not located in its ability to compete economically with nations of 260million, 340million, or even 1000 million people. It is not our economic power that makes us a serious player on the world stage, but our symbolic and our moral power. For generations we have been a nation globally admired not essentially for our love of liberty and fairness, or for our tolerance for diversity of person, belief and opinion, but for the integrity of the institutions that maintain and transmit these noble qualities from generation to generation. But recently we have seen these virtues threatened from many directions: from misguided politicians who have stained our global reputation for justice and legality with the crimes of an unjust and illegal war; from selfish bankers who exposed the corruptness of our system by feeding greedily from our tables while leaving us to pay the bill; from self-interested politicians who behind parliamentary privileges exposed their unfitness to lead by claiming expenses no decent British person would ever claim. And now from a tribe of ideological politicians, who, in the name of saving us from economic ruin, unnecessarily unravel our greatest institutions in the hope they may save a few extra pounds, win the next general election, and thereby maintain the power their schooling told them would always be theirs. But as we read closely the book they are writing, it turns out that the pounds they save are not from the pockets of the wealthiest in society, but from the pockets of the poorest and most needy. We read that under their policies it will soon be more expensive than in any recent decade for middle and working class parents to raise a family and put food on the table, more unlikely for an ambitious middle or working class girl to enjoy a university education, and more hopeless for the unconnected but hardworking youth to create for himself a brighter future. For these reasons, and many more besides, we find ourselves bemused when they say their current policies will make Britain more fair, more just and more mobile. Let us be clear - their policies will do nothing of the kind. All they will do is increase the likelihood that the types of people who lead us today will end up leading us tomorrow. I believe that what makes this country, this Britain, this Great Britain, deserving of its special name, is not the stubbornness of politicians to stick to their guns when they have got it wrong, not the vested interests of those with power to ensure their power remains, not the people who enjoyed the best university education making it harder for those who can’t, but the capacity of our institutions to uphold the moral foundations – fairnesss, justice, tolerance, equality of opportunity – that secured our place among the great nations of the world. But once these institutions, built by the labor of generations, begin to crumble at the hands of an irresponsible few, we lose far more than our current hope and our birthright of opportunity - we lose the keys to our future. If ever we were a United Kingdom, then let us Unite this Kingdom tonight in our opposition to the unraveling we see around us. Let us unite in saying no more and no way to what they intend to do..."