Ed Davey says he 'used the wrong C-word' when he called Tories 'clowns'

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00:00 Thank you, friends.

00:02 I'm afraid I have to start this afternoon with an apology.

00:06 You might remember, after our incredible victory in Somerton and Froome in July,

00:14 when the amazing Sarah Dyke

00:17 overturned a Conservative majority of 19,000,

00:21 I said it's time to get these clowns out of number 10.

00:28 We even wrote it on the side of a big blue cannon, do you remember?

00:32 Well, a party member got in touch afterwards to say he is an actual clown.

00:41 And he took great offence at being compared to the Conservative government.

00:50 (Laughter)

00:52 (Applause)

00:54 And on reflection, after me, he's got a point.

01:04 Clowns didn't crash our economy and send interest rates soaring.

01:10 Clowns didn't let water companies make billions in profits

01:15 while dumping filthy sewage into our rivers and onto our beaches.

01:20 Clowns didn't plunge our NHS into crisis, pushing waiting lists to record highs.

01:24 Clowns didn't waste billions of pounds of our money on dodgy PPE contracts.

01:31 Clowns didn't prop up a lying, law-breaking Prime Minister

01:36 and then allow him to put his cronies in the House of Lords.

01:39 Clowns didn't do it.

01:43 The Conservatives did.

01:47 So, let me take this opportunity to apologise, unreservedly, to that party member

01:53 and to the whole clowning community.

01:57 (Laughter)

01:59 (Applause)

02:01 I'm sorry I used the wrong C word, so let me try again.

02:12 (Laughter)

02:14 It's time to get these Conservatives out of number 10.

02:18 (audience applauding)