Neil Kinnock
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock PCis a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 March 1942
vanity political killers
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
truth two half
Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
house decision reform
I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.
want unfairness ideology
Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.
liberty economic assets
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
party thinking years
At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.
smile missing teeth
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
differences making-a-difference angry
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
ideas britain skeptic
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.
political intellectual way
[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
party people important
I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.
party historical trouble
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
enemy idealism ideals
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
spirit wilson bourgeois
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.