The late great Jimmy Reid

[Nearly Sane]

Good review of the biography of one of the best speakers I have had the privilege of seeing.


https://stv.tv/news/politics/1441867-ponsonby-remembering-the-unionist-and-activist-jimmy-reid/?fbclid=IwAR2QDJyyaStLdqNe_ElR3m09r7bN2Ff1c6msD5Y3qL0nuG2A4WKg7vhdVZU

[Robbie]

i remember him from childhood - Upper Clyde? Later too, might even have met him when I was a teenager. He was a good speaker.

[Anchorman]

In his later years, he was disowned by the Labour movement, having supported independence. Yet he claimed he still held onto the Kier Hardie principles the Labor movement ditched.

[Nearly Sane]

In his later years, he was disowned by the Labour movement, having supported independence. Yet he claimed he still held onto the Kier Hardie principles the Labor movement ditched.

We are both too young, I think,  to have seen this speech of his at Glasgow Uni, but it is up there as one of the great speeches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSIF_1eBo6Q

[Anchorman]

We are both too young, I think,  to have seen this speech of his at Glasgow Uni, but it is up there as one of the great speeches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSIF_1eBo6Q

   




Yep.
I've only ever seen it online.
I never had the chance to meet him in person.
By the way, Jim Sillars hated him....which is another reason to admire him, in my book at least.