The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask. Neil Kinnock More Quotes by Neil Kinnock More Quotes From Neil Kinnock 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. Neil Kinnock partyimportantpeople [Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did. Neil Kinnock politicalintellectualway New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. Neil Kinnock qualitypoliticalloyalty Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery. Neil Kinnock partycareersmen American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. Neil Kinnock nucleargovernmentweapons 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. Neil Kinnock unfairnessideologywant The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing. Neil Kinnock teethsmilemissing In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it. Neil Kinnock stainsresistance 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. Neil Kinnock reformdecisionhouse Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry. Neil Kinnock angrymaking-a-differencedifferences You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits. Neil Kinnock fashionhalftwo Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. Neil Kinnock humorousinspirationalfunny Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot. Neil Kinnock talentfeetthinking I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old. Neil Kinnock illfall 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. Neil Kinnock economicassetsliberty I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir. Neil Kinnock summerwinterfootball 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. Neil Kinnock skepticbritainideas Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions. Neil Kinnock doctorsjobsschool We must not look for some kind of Messiah. Neil Kinnock messiahkindlooks People who tell pollsters that they’re not sure or they’re not going to vote Conservative will, in the privacy of the ballot booth, say: 'To hell with it, I’ll stick with what I know. Neil Kinnock top-news
