Tuesday 2nd May – Bromley Branch kindly gave me a 45 minute slot at their monthly meeting. I intended to speak about my campaign but in fact most of the members wanted detailed information about the EU so I ran an off the cuff speech taking questions as I went along.
I recommend off the cuff speaking as it allows you to respond to what your audience want. The downside is that if it does not go well you can be quite reasonably blamed for not having prepared something. The answer is to have a broad and detailed knowledge of your subject to draw upon. Luckily I am ok there - Having had the good fortune to work for the cause of British Independence as a researcher backing up our MEP’s in the European Parliament for the last four years.
In the event things went so well and I had to field so many questions that we over ran to just under an hour. Indeed I found myself still answering questions between gulps of tea in the mid evening break. Many thanks to the lady who gave me a second cuppa. Public speaking is thirsty work.
Bromley Leader Sid Piggott was kind enough to praise me for speaking without any notes and ask if I could return to Bromley shortly.
After the break we all watched a video interview of Nigel Farage. I had seen it once before but was glad of the opportunity to study it some more and pick up the odd speaking tip from the UK’s fastest rising Political Leader.
Thursday 4 June 2009
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