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Friends and Progressives,
Over the last few weeks, this movement that we created together has gone from strength to strength. I was proud to be the most popular candidate in the congressional elections, being elected by the people to be Prime Minister. I am proud of the work we've done together and the work we will continue doing if you re-elect me leader.
I think the central question of this election is, what is a leader for?
Let me give you my vision of leadership.
Leadership is about working with those you lead, not dictating.
Leadership is about sharing out the credit, and not claiming to be all knowing and all power.
And Leadership is about empowering those you lead to be part of leading themselves.
That is what I have endeavoured to do over previous weeks, and what I intend to continue doing.
I was proud of our election manifesto, which I put to a vote of all members, and no objections were raised. All decisions are taken jointly by myself and my deputy leader, and if re-elected, and I will re-design our party to make it bottom-up. This was always my vision for our movement, but wasn't possible due to a small, inactive membership, but now that the party has grown, I am ready to bring this vision of a people led movement to life.
That means all policies, economic, foreign, defence, home affairs, will be grown from bellow, listening to all voices, and not dictated by the leader.
Everything I do as leader has been, up until now, and will be, guided by you.
I want to turn to deeply unfair criticisms of me levelled by my opponent, but also my friend and deputy leader.
It is incredibly incorrect to attack the focus of the manifesto on the economy, because "there is no economy", because at the time it was written, there was. That attack is either wrong or a lie. And indeed, many of our economic polices were actually focused on improving national defence. Clearly that's not applicable at the moment, but in discussions with my friend I have already conceded this. Context must be remembered, and at the time we still had an economy, and if we had improved the economy, we would have been in a stronger position. But at the time the economy was still important. It is therefore not fair to attack that manifesto.
It should also not be forgotten, that there are still companies, owned by Brits, and British people working in them. I have pushed for a minimum wage, something I'm delighted the Government introduced, to make our country even stronger in defence, by ensuring citizens can afford to buy all the supplies they need.
Secondly, my friend knows very well that we have agreed jointly, on my suggestion, that at the next election we will publish separate manifestos for each policy area, allowing great policy development, and that we will focus more on foreign and defence policies. We are already going in the new direction he wants to take us. It's like driving down a road, then hijacking the car and carrying on in the same direction, just with a different driver.
And why change the driver when the current one has a proven track record of doing a good job.
He attacks "the same old policies of Prime Minister Will", despite me being very open about negotiating policy with him, and consulting all members, as well as plans drawn up by us to create a team of spokespeople on each policy area, driving party policy - which thanks our growing membership, I will implement after this election.
So you see, I have deep respect for my friend, and I will want him to continue as my deputy leader, but his attacks are all wrong, and he knows it.
I am already planning greater focus on defence and foreign affairs. I am working with members to formulate policy. He and I have consulted on all decisions since his appointment as deputy leader, so we've been agreed on the road we're going down for weeks now.
So as your leader, we will focus on defence and foreign policies to strengthen our nation, and make the DPC, the movement we birthed together and that I am incredibly honoured to lead, the party of British pride and British honour, agreeing on all policies, and formulating policies together. We will put more emphasis on having members lead our party. And we will go and do even better in this months Congress elections, to ensure we have a real voice in the future of our nation.
If you want a member led party, going down a road of a party as strong on defence as on the economy, and with proven leadership that has clearly delivered results, with a good showing in the elections and with achievements to show in Government, then please vote for me.
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