James Cook
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1,517 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 10 Sep
James Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think
The the the Buckingham Palace thought it was deniable enough, but unfortunately for them, David Cameron rather let the cat out of the bag some years later when he gave an interview saying that they had orchestrated that moment because they were so concerned.
And they had persuaded Buckingham Palace to to do that and for the Queen to do it.
Inscrutable apart from her silver jubilee speech in nineteen seventy-seven when she um raised eyebrows at that point as well by pretty much criticising the idea of devolution for Scotland, a position she obviously changed as in her later years.
I wasn't there, I have to confess.
I I watched last night and uh a a report I did for the T V news where I put a big chunk of the speech into it, so I suppose I must have seen it because I put it into my report at the time.
I've watched it in full since obviously.
What a speech.
I mean, you know, objectively speaking, not not not not endorsing the content or or not, but but as an objective observer, that speech is a remarkable
went right near the end of the campaign and Gordon Brown and he's prowls up and down as Gordon Brown likes to do in a stage and he'd tell them it's our country, it's our flag and and so on.
It it was a significant moment, I think.
Um, if you were a an impartial observer, you would say that the the yes campaign had probably had more passion than the better together campaign, than the no campaign.
And that the yes campaign had had a more of a sense of patriotism, nationalism, uh the possibilities for the nation, what it meant to be a Scot, and that that had perhaps been missing from a Better Together campaign, which, although
Um, successfully led in that regard by Alistair Darling, had focused relentlessly on the issues of, as we've discussed, of currency and the borders and practical issues.
And what Gordon Brown did is he pulled all of the things together and he made a speech that it said in essence, you can be the most patriotic Scot there is and still oppose the concept of Scottish independence and support Scotland.
Than being in the union.
That was the heart of his message.
It was a speech about patriotism, about what it what his country meant to him, what he believed it meant to a lot of people in the country.
And I think it was a very impressive piece of rhetoric.
And it probably swayed some people.
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