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  • The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

    BBC's "Question Time", September 18, 2008.
  • There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

    Party   Recovery   People  
    Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com
  • It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

    Party   Believe   Past  
    "Interview: Diane Abbott, Candidate for British Labour Party Leader". Interview with Kim Pearson, www.blogher.com.
  • The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

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

    Party   Four   Lasts  
  • I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

    Party   People   Favour  
  • Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

    Country   Party   Wings  
    Said in November 1953. "The Liberal Dilemma". Book by Alan Watkins, p. 91, 1966.
  • I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

    Party   Believe   Beats  
  • People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

    Party   People   Want  
  • We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.

    Country   Party   Believe  
  • I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.

    Country   Lying   Party  
  • She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

    Evelyn Waugh (1958). “Vile Bodies”, p.23, Obelix Books
  • My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

  • I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

    Strong   Party   Want  
    BBC's "Panorama", March 22, 1976.
  • The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.

  • We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party

  • The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

    The Times, September 25, 1986.
  • Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

    Party   Cutting   Circles  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

    Morning   Lying   Party  
    "Galloway wins in Bethnal Green & Bow - confirmed" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2005.
  • I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.

    Children   Party   Moving  
    In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11
  • 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.

    Party   Men   London  
  • 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.

    Party   Thinking   Years  
  • I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first post-World War II general election, when the Labour Party, to everyone's amazement, ousted the Conservatives. I refused to obey the instructions of a policeman, and as a result, almost got a belt around the ear, because those were the days when policemen could hit children and nobody cared, they thought it was probably good for them.

    Children   War   Party  
    Source: time.com
  • The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

    Jobs   Party   Health  
    "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.
  • I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

    Running   Party   Mad  
  • As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.

  • Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

    Tribune, 1954.
  • I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.

    Party   Giving   Support  
    "Blair endorses Brown as new Labour Party leader". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2007.
  • I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

    Party   Years   Odd  
  • Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews.

    Party   Space   Finals  
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