Quotes

My late husband gave his life to the Labour Party and my loyalty is to the party, and to what Gordon Brown has done for the country... My son holds his own views but I'm very angry about this and very angry with him.

Manjula Sood 04/05/2010

Category: Criticism, Insulting Labour, Prime Minister (Office of)

Tags: Criticism, Government, Humour, Insulting Labour, Insults, Manjula Sood, Prime Minister (Office of)

The Conservatives conserve what you have got, the Liberals are liberal with it and Labour gives it all away.

Ted Hunt

Category: Insulting Labour, Insulting Liberals, Conservatism

Tags: Conservatism, Ideologies, Insulting Labour, Insulting Liberals, Insults, Ted Hunt

New Labour, Old Bag.

Alastair Campbell 10/1997

On Barbara Castle after her protest over pensions

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Alastair Campbell, Insulting Labour, Insults

It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.

Harold Macmillan

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Harold Macmillan, Insulting Labour, Insults

Attlee seemed determined to make a trumpet sound like a train whistle.

Aneurin Bevan

Category: Insulting Labour, Speechmaking

Tags: Aneurin Bevan, Insulting Labour, Insults, Politics, Speechmaking

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

Edward Heath

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Edward Heath, Insulting Labour, Insults

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

Michael Heseltine 1992

n John Smith during the runup to the 1992 election.

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Michael Heseltine

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

Winston Churchill

On Ramsay MacDonald.

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Winston Churchill

I felt as if I had breathed the dark, fetid armosphere of beyond the tomb.

Sir Henry Channon 14/06/1950

Upon meeting Stafford Cripps.

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Sir Henry Channon

A dessicated calculating machine.

Aneurin Bevan

On Hugh Gaitskell

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Aneurin Bevan, Insulting Labour, Insults

I have waited fifty years to see the Bonless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

Winston Churchill 28/01/1931

On Ramsay Macdonald during a Trade Union Bill debate, referring to the exhibit in Barnum's Circus

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Winston Churchill

A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.

Hugh Dalton 1935

Reaction to Clement Attlee's election as Labour leader

Category: Insulting Labour, Labour Party

Tags: Hugh Dalton, Insulting Labour, Insults, Labour Party, Political Parties

He is a modest little man with much to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

On Clement Attlee

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Winston Churchill

He is a sheep in wolf's clothing.

Winston Churchill

On Clement Attlee

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Winston Churchill

The trouble with Tony is he is a king of ageing perennial youth. I've used the phrase about him 'he immatures with age' and he certainly does.

Harold Wilson 20/04/1984

On Tony Benn

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Harold Wilson, Insulting Labour, Insults

Nye's little dog.

Hugh Dalton 04/1951

On Harold Wilson

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Hugh Dalton, Insulting Labour, Insults

If you recognise anyone, it does not mean you like them. We all for instance recognise the Member for Ebbw Vale.

Winston Churchill 01/07/1952

Referring to Aneurin Bevan

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Winston Churchill

There but for the Grace of God, goes God.

Winston Churchill

On Sir Stafford Cripps

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Winston Churchill

Arthur Scargill is a bloody lunatic.

Neil Kinnock 15/10/1983

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Neil Kinnock

A timid old Tory.

Barbara Castle 18/09/1980

On James Callaghan

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Barbara Castle, Insulting Labour, Insults

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The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.

John Morley

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