#britain

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain. ↗

— Francis Maude

#like #modern #think #touch #understand

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain. ↗

— Francis Maude

#britain #contemporary #home #just #like

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#bad #britain #desperate #film #film industry

Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#britain #character #gay #jack #just

I am the 'change Britain' candidate. We can only change Britain through a united Labour Party and I am the unity candidate. I have got support from the Left and the Right of the party. ↗

— David Miliband

#britain #candidate #change #got #i

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. ↗

— David Miliband

#centrally #education #housing #over #prescribed

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world. ↗

— David Miliband

#britain #just #lives #more #more power

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. ↗

— David Miliband

#alone #biggest #britain #class #economies

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world. ↗

— David Miliband

#danger #europe #foreign #foreign policy #policy