Neil Kinnock
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock PCis a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 March 1942
smile missing teeth
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
party historical trouble
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
looks kind messiah
We must not look for some kind of Messiah.
party labour-movement answers
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
want unfairness ideology
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.
ideas britain skeptic
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.
war house able
No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
resistance stains
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
fashion two half
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
summer football winter
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.
differences making-a-difference angry
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
fall ill
I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.
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I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.
liberty economic assets
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.