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
funny humorous men
Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
government weapons months
American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.
truth two half
Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
party thinking years
At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.
political intellectual way
[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
party people important
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.
vanity political killers
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
yellow bananas gang
They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.
war labour-movement world
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
revenge desire toxins
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.
party men careers
Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.
enemy idealism ideals
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
real fishing agony
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
loyalty political quality
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.