Labour Party Quotes

• The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

  Tony Benn

  Christian, Party, Church

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• The longest suicide note in history.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Suicide, Notes, Suicide Note

  Describing the Labour Party's 'New Hope for Britain' (1983), in Denis Healey 'The Time of My Life' (1989) ch. 23

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• The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

  Clive Anderson

  Party, Four, Lasts

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• I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

  Tony Blair

  Change, Country, Party

  Tony Blair (1996). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”

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• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Arthur Scargill

  Leadership, Party, Europe

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• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Leadership, Party, Political

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• The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

  Greg Knight

  Suicide, Party, Election

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• If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

  Shirley Williams

  Party, Belief, Democratic

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• The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

  Roy Jenkins

  Party, Has Beens, Labour

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• The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, Giving, Support

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• The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Party, Believe, White

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• I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

  Tony Benn

  Party, Years, Drs

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• The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.

  Jo Grimond

  Party, Believe, Political

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• A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

  Karl Radek

  Party, Clubs, Action

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• I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

  Billy Bragg

  Party, Used, Stills

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• Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, People, Gone

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• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Men, London

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• Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

  Dora Russell

  Party, Might, Common

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• I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

  Tony Benn

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Tony Benn (1990). “The end of an era: diaries, 1980-90”, Vintage

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• We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Pain, Party, Years

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Next, Causes

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• The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Arrogance, Nasty

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• Ive been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.

  David Cunliffe

  Jobs, Party, Labour Movement

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• Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

  Diane Abbott

  Party, Issues, Abortion

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• People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Believe, People

  Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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