David Lammy responds to Obama's victory

Speaking at a special Fabian Society conference, David Lammy criticised David Cameron's attempt to align himself with Barack Obama as the candidate for change.

Lammy who has spoken of his professional friendship with the Democratic president-elect highlighted a series of contrasts between the policies of Obama and those of the Conservative leader.

He said: "For all of the challenges that the United States faces too, Barack Obama hasnt argued that American society is broken. Of course he hasnt. Because his was a politics of hope, not a politics of pessimism.

"Most people remember what a broken society feels like: I was there in the 1980s," the minister added.

MP and minister David Lammy was the keynote speaker at the conference America Votes, Europe Responds, held in London on November 8. Other speakers were Bill Brandzel, Obama's head of online campaigning in North Carolina, Baroness Shirley Williams and Robert Cooper, director general for external and politico-military affairs at the Council of the European Union. Bill Rammell MP and former Europe minister Denis MacShane MP both spoke in the Europe Responds session.

Read the David Lammy speech in full on the Fabian Society website, at: http://fabians.org.uk/events/transcripts/lammy-us-america-new-campaignin

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[haasxaar]

Lammy is talking out his arse - New Labour economic policy is basically a Thatcherite handbook - hes a functionary who toes the party line. Deregulation and privatisation are two hallmarks of New Labour - its a bankrupt movement now and needs to lose the next election

[docbrown1471]

lamy is just a coconut

[mbb05jb]

"Most people remember what a broken society feels like: I was there in the 1980s," this is my favorite quote. the country is going that way because of the labour goverment.

[mbb05jb]

labour is defunct. we need change in this country. what amuses me is labour cozying up to abama, when he was against the iraq war and labour was for it.