Undoubtedly The War With Iraq Was A

I Try Not To Make Political Arguments Personal. It Doesn't Help And It Switches A Lot Of People Off. The Real Questions: Will We Have Peace? Will We Have Justice? Will We Have Pensions? Will We Have Free Education? Will We Have Public Services? .... Those Are The Sort Of Things Which Interest Me. I Don't Think That Having A Go At Individuals Really Helps Get Your Point Across Apart From Anything Else.

When Somebody Comes Up With A Progressive Idea, To Begin With, You're Mad, Bonkers. Then If You Go On, You're Dangerous. Then There's A Pause. Then You Can't Find Anyone Who Can Say They Thought Of It In The First Place. That's How Progress Is Made. This Is Why I Do Believe In The Vote. In The End, All These People Who've Been Tempted To The Right Realise The Warning Lights In Their Constituency Are Brighter Than The Bright Lights From No. 10 Offering Them Things.

Cabinet Members Are Soon Overwhelmed By The Insistent Demands Of Running Their Departments. On The Whole, A Period In High Office Consumers Intellectual Capital; It Does Not Create It....the Less Ministers Know At The Outset, The More Dependent They Are On The Only Sources Of Available Knowledge; The Permanent Officials.

The Thought That My Mother Would Suddenly Be A Foreigner Would Upset Me Very Much.

Change Always Follows The Same Pattern. If You Come Up With Something New They Try And Put You Off.if That Doesn't Work They Call You Stark Raving Bonkers.if That Doesn't Work They Lock You Up Like The Suffragettes.then, After A Pause, The Change Happensand You Can't Find Anyone That Doesn't Claim To Have Been Fighting For It With You.