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
cultural society stain
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
blair decision election last mr
Mr Blair made the decision before the election that it would be his last as leader,
fighting hands rifles
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.
loyalty political quality
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
yellow bananas gang
They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.
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.
looks kind messiah
We must not look for some kind of Messiah.
resistance stains
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
everybody prime
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
minded
People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
promote somebody
I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
event experience labour party prime
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.