首相正在讨论将决策权从威斯敏斯特和霍利罗德下放到地区和城镇。伯恩汉姆提到拉文斯克雷格，这里曾是苏格兰钢铁工业的骄傲，在1992年关闭前曾雇佣了数万人。他说：当它关闭时，不仅仅是一个工厂停止运作，而是整个社区看到其下方的支柱被夺走，就在其下方崩塌。
The prime minister is speaking about devolving decision-making powers away from both Westminster and Holyrood towards regions and towns Burnham spoke of Ravenscraig, once the pride of Scotland’s steel industry that employed tens of thousands of people before it closed in 1992. He said: When it closed, it wasn’t just a works that shut, it was a whole community which saw the pillars underneath it just taken away, collapsed beneath it.
那是一个在数百英里之外做出的决定，对此将对这里的人们意味着什么没有任何实际后果，由那些永远不必承担这些后果或看到这些后果的人做出。
That was a decision taken hundreds of miles away without any real consequences for what that would mean for people here, taken by people who would never have to live with those consequences, or see those consequences.
我在2000年代初担任该地区的国会议员长达16年，就在1990年代煤矿关闭之后。看到老矿工们拖着氧气瓶 shuffling 进我的诊室，仍在为肺部受到的损害争取赔偿，这让我心碎。
I was the MP there for 16 years from the early 2000s, just after the pits had shut in the 1990s. It broke my heart to see the old miners shuffling into my surgery, carrying oxygen bottles, still struggling to get compensation for the damage that was done to their lungs.
看到我开车经过利格附近比克斯肖煤矿周围的荒地——这是利格最后几个关闭的煤矿之一——我也感到痛苦。当时也没有人询问利格接下来将发生什么。我非常关心苏格兰，今天我带着一个重大提议而来，寻求共同点。
It pained me to drive past the wasteland around Bickershaw Colliery, one of the last pits to close in Leigh. Nobody asked Leigh what was going to come next either. I care about Scotland a lot, and I am coming today with a big offer and in search of common ground.
我在七月走进唐宁街时表示，我想以不同的方式从事政治。地方第一，不是政党第一。我说的是实话，我正是抱着这种精神而来，因为在我看来，苏格兰人民值得更好的政治家和政治。
When I walked into Downing Street in July, I said I wanted to do politics differently. Place first, not party first. Honestly, I meant it, and I arrive here in that spirit because people in Scotland, in my view, deserve better from politicians and politics.