– It is not at all, not at all the same today as 40 years ago. It is the common interests that bind us together. The liberal attitudes. That is why it suits such a national meeting so well that a strong ideological speech is given, says Uffe Ellemann.
From the front row, the former foreign minister listened to his son’s chairman’s speech at the Liberal Party’s national meeting in Jyske Bank Boxen on Saturday morning.
Along the way, he was moved.
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen gave a speech on freedom. But he stopped briefly before he really got started.
His voice cracked briefly as he outlined the time around the fall of the Wall and the Soviet Union, saying, “I was proud that it was my father who represented our country in that struggle.”
– I would be a scoundrel if I do not say that I was moved and touched, says Uffe Ellemann-Jensen.
Before the national meeting, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen was called by a voters’ association chairman in West Jutland a girl who does not dare to come west of Herning and face reality.
– It’s pure nonsense. He likes to come west of Herning. I did that too. So it does not fit, says Uffe Ellemann.
Going back three decades, the future chairman walked around with the then chairman – in rubber boots – at the same latitude as Herning by Karup ร .
– I even had a cabin not very far from here. It was strictly a single degree west of Herning. There I sat and wrote my national assembly speeches. It happened then that Jakob was involved, says Uffe Ellemann-Jensen.
He also thinks he knows a lot about rubber boots and tries to slow down the story that the City Left does not understand the reality in the countryside.
Uffe Ellemann made the experience that you “get a headache from sleeping with rubber boots on” when you go to bed after hunting.
Nevertheless, according to political commentator Hans Engell, the leaders of the Liberal Party have often had challenges, and some of them have been laughed at when they have traveled far out in the country to meet members and voters.
– They have not completely hit the target. The Liberal Party’s leaders always have problems, especially those who live in Hellerup, when they suddenly have to enter a cowshed in western Jutland, he says.
Uffe Ellemann does not agree:
– It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense, says Uffe Ellemann-Jensen.
Source: The Nordic Page