http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/elections/london/08/html/mayor.stm
※ 引述《NPLNT (Bruzi Geist)》之銘言:
: 約翰遜在勝利演說中形容利文斯通是“一位非常重要的公僕”,讚揚他把市長塑造成全國
: 重視的職位,“還有當倫敦在2005年7月7日遭到襲擊時,您為倫敦發言”。
這篇演說我覺得是學英文寫作不錯的選擇:)
Mayor's Statement 7 July 2005
This was a cowardly attack, which has resulted in injury and loss of life. Our
thoughts are with everyone who has been injured, or lost loved ones. I want to
thank the emergency services for the way they have responded.
Following the al-Qaeda attacks on September 11th in America we conducted a
series of exercises in London in order to be prepared for just such an attack.
One of the exercises undertaken by the government, my office and the emergency
and security services was based on the possibility of multiple explosions on
the transport system during the Friday rush hour. The plan that came out of
that exercise is being executed today, with remarkable efficiency and courage,
and I praise those staff who are involved.
I'd like to thank Londoners for the calm way in which they have responded to
this cowardly attack and echo the advice of the Metropolitan Police
Commissioner Sir Ian Blair - do everything possible to assist the police and
take the advice of the police about getting home today.
I have no doubt whatsoever that this is a terrorist attack. We did hope in the
first few minutes after hearing about the events on the Underground that it
might simply be a maintenance tragedy. That was not the case. I have been able
to stay in touch through the very excellent communications that were
established for the eventuality that I might be out of the city at the time of
a terrorist attack and they have worked with remarkable effectiveness. I will
be in continual contact until I am back in London.
I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a
terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at
Presidents or Prime Ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class
Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old.
It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any
considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.
That isn't an ideology, it isn't even a perverted faith - it is just an
indiscriminate attempt at mass murder and we know what the objective is. They
seek to divide Londoners. They seek to turn Londoners against each other. I
said yesterday to the International Olympic Committee, that the city of London
is the greatest in the world, because everybody lives side by side in harmony.
Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack. They will stand together
in solidarity alongside those who have been injured and those who have been
bereaved and that is why I'm proud to be the mayor of that city.
Finally, I wish to speak directly to those who came to London today to take
life. I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order
to take others - that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you
may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show
you why you will fail.
In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at
our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that
people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in
London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their
potential.
They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to
be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be
themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They
don't want that and nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that
flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony
with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.
Ken Livingstone,
Mayor of London
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我的感覺是Paddick>Livingstone>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Johnson
一個長得像川普的populist真是今年歐洲政治上第二糟的選擇了
(第一糟當然是無人能及的AC米蘭老闆)
(真糟糕這是感想文)
(那附一下地圖)