I refused to be silenced by threats of prosecution and I am going to speak out on what is a perfectly legitimate topic for debate. There are those who disagree, and that is fine. What we cannot have in this country are MPs being threatened when they speak out on contentious issues.
Philip Hollobone 23/03/2010
Category: Religion
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)
He asked, 'Do you ever come down to London? If you ever come down you must come to No10 and meet me and Sarah...' Well I just looked at him. I didn't like to say it, but all I could think was, 'I don't think you'll be there.'
Gillian Duffy 02/05/2010
Category: Mistakes, Winning & Losing, Wise words
Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.
David Cameron 22/04/2010
Category: Hecklers (dealing with), Oneliners
It's a bit like political Wag-ery, isn't it? It seems to me to be completely irrelevant.
Esther Rantzen 11/04/2010
Category: Women in Politics
I really adored her, though by the time I met her she was already with David. She's gorgeous and we were all crazy about her. She's just very clever, very artistic and very beautiful.
Dominic West 27/04/2010
Category: Women in Politics
Peter Mandelson: "Obviously I feel entirely pig sick about it."
Ed Balls: "Peter does now know the signature tune to the programme because Yvette and I sang it to him this morning."
Andrew Neil: "Oh too much information. Go back to the cuts."
Peter Mandelson: "I'm leaving the campaign to join pig, Peppa Pig."
Peter Mandelson 24/04/2010
Category: Election Campaigning
A Labour activist is taking a stroll along a cliff top, when he hears voices shouting for help. On closer inspection he sees two people clinging for dear life from the cliff's edge - one a Tory and one a Lib Dem. The moral dilemma, of course, is: which one should the Labour activist kick off first? Answer: the Tory. Business before pleasure...
Tom Harris 12/04/2010
Category: Criticism
My jaw dropped because at a stroke the tonsorial tweak of a flattened side parting just makes the 39-year--old Osborne look even younger. And as all the focus groups and polls seem to show, his inexperience is a factor in this election. Even one Conservative supporter on Twitter said he 'looks like his mum dressed him and patted his hair down with a lick of her hand before off to Auntie Mabel's funeral!' Others were much less polite.
Paul Waugh 20/04/2010
Category: Repartee
It is such a shockingly short campaign to an America, our last presidential campaign lasted 18 months. Why could a country that fashions itself in the top five on earth take only a month to make a decision on their leader? A country that seems to enjoy politics so much more than my own seems to dispatch with their process so quickly...Maybe if I truly was a part of your system the whole process would make sense, but I doubt it.
Kiernan Ambrose 24/04/2010
Category: Election Campaigning
The mood of the country as a whole and the opinions of the people who voted Lib Dem should be considered important enough to trump the petty indulgences of Liberal Democract activists and other loons. A general rule: when choosing between fucking the public and fucking the base, successful political parties tell the base to go fuck themselves.
Alex Massie 25/04/2010
Category: Election Campaigning, Electoral Systems
This is not the first social media campaign that has resulted in a big fail for the people doing it. You would expect some learning to be happening.
Rik Ferguson 23/03/2010
Category: Election Campaigning
At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to mandarins. Unless American comedians can make the Home Office fit for purpose, the taxpayer won't be laughing.
Chris Huhne 22/03/2010
Category: Public Relations
I understand French very well. It is harder with some of the technical terms but je peux parler tres bien francais, mais je ne sais pais le vocabulaire parce ce que j'ai oublie. I see it as a positive, not a negative.
Baroness Ashton of Upholland 23/03/2010
Category: France
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and those are all the ones you want to concentrate on
George W Bush
Category: Oneliners, Standing for Office, Voter Turnout
If I was in standard class I would not do work because people would be looking over your shoulder the entire time. There would be noise. There would be distraction... They are totally different type of people.
Sir Nicholas Winterton 18/02/2010
on MPs travelling first class
Category: Conservative Party, Class
I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.
David Cameron 18/02/2010
On Piers Morgan's interview with Gordon Brown.
Category: Leaders, Interviews, Labour Politicians (quotes about), Events
I think it was a legitimate comment and I mean Twitter is edgy and you know it provokes debate. It looks on this occasion that as if it has caused a serious problem and we need to go back and look at that.
David Wright MP 16/02/2010
on his "scum-sucking pig" Twitter post
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Labour Party, Making Headlines, Member of Parliament (role of)
