#labour

Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action. And whether they'll vote New Labour at the next election. There's no need to be cynical, Susan. Why not? You've got me there. ↗

— William Donaldson

#new-labour #love

That's the point. If these Labour MP's were really working men, they'd have some sense. But most of 'em, or at least the ones I've met, seem to be half-baked intellectuals who've specialized in economics or some such dreary muck. ↗

— Carter Dickson

#men

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail. ↗

— Owen Arthur

#cause #conviction #fail #fortified #forward

I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year. ↗

— Ed Balls

#economy #foot #front #game #get

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#being #being used #beings #cannot #god

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#because #believed #compassion #decide #equality

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. ↗

— Alistair Darling

#cut #faster #further #labour #many

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as. ↗

— Helen Garner

#behaviour #being #contributed #everything #full

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#appear #determining #difficult #distance #earth

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#am #big #choice #country #deputy