32 Quotes filtered by insulting conservatives
if it's a boy I'll call him John. if it's a girl I'll call her Mary. But if, as I suspect, it's only a bag of wind, I'll call it F E Smith.
Lord Chief Justice Stewart
To F E Smith after he commented on the size of Stewart's stomach and asked "What's it to be, a boy or girl?"
Category: Insulting Conservatives, 100 Best Quotes Ever
The Right Honourable Gentleman caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.
Benjamin Disraeli 28/02/1845
Attacking Sir Robert Peel for trying to coerce his backbench MPs into following the Government line.
Category: Insulting Conservatives
The arch mediocrity who presided, rather than ruled, over a Cabinet of mediocrities...not a statesman, a statemonger. Preemptory on little questions, the great ones he left open.
Harold Wilson 18/07/1961
On Harold Macmillan
Category: Insulting Conservatives
It was announced that the trouble was not malignant. I remarked that it was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
Evelyn Waugh 03/1964
On Randolph Churchill
Category: Insulting Conservatives
She is a bounder, a liar, a deceiver, a cheat, a crook and a disgrace to the House of Commons.
Tam Dalyell 22/02/1987
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
A loutish Minister of the thuggish tendency.
Michael Meacher 28/07/1986
On Norman Tebbit
Category: Insulting Conservatives
Dr Strangelove of the economic world.
James Callaghan 16/05/1979
On Keith Joseph
Category: Insulting Conservatives
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.
Denis Healey 14/06/1978
On Geoffrey Howe
Category: Insulting Conservatives
They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.
Neil Kinnock 22/02/1987
On the Tories
Category: Insulting Conservatives
Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?
David Winnick 26/03/1987
To Norman Fowler about Edwina Currie
Category: Insulting Conservatives
I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.
John Smith 07/1993
Category: Insulting Conservatives
The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the alter cloth.
Aneurin Bevan
Category: Insulting Conservatives
