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,
bloody
I've been so bloody respectable and responsible... I'm going to be a bloody old nuisance.
evil ownership source
We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.
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.
party men careers
Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.
yellow bananas gang
They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.
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.
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.
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.