An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin’s Russia: it’s like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
I am a public library.
The Establishment decided Thatcher’s ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.
Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn’t believe a word he said.
I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing.
It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen’s head off the stamps.
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.
Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.
When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.