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)
I want to stand up and be counted - and expose the BNP for what they are... I want to antagonise them and attend their meetings, find out what makes them tick.
Mo Chaudry 22/02/2010
the Asian millionaire businessman announcing he will apply for membership of the British National Party.
Category: BNP & National Front
I am not happy about the way things are. I pray for President Obama every single day. But tell you what. Homey made this bed, now he has got to lay in it.
Stephen Baldwin 15/02/2010
at the Conservative Political Action Conference
Category: Presidency, The US (office of), Party Conferences
I gave a figure, off the top of my head, of a billion to a billion-and-a-half. I stand by that figure.
Philip Hammond
on justifying his claim that Conservative plans would save £1.5bn despite the fact that the institute for Fiscal Studies estimate was half of that
Category: Conservative Party, Mistakes
Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.
Norman Tebbit 03/2010
on the upcoming election
Category: Election Campaigning
Now this really is getting highly surreal and amusing at the same time. On the one hand, Labour Party people, such as John Prescott are complaining about a breach of confidentiality by the National Bullying Helpline, and then others, such as Gordon brown's PPS are demanding the helpline prove its statements, thus breaching confidentiality further.
Dizzy Thinks 22/02/2010
summarising the Gordon Brown bullying debacle
Category: Making Headlines, Number 10
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
Sir Bernard Ingham 05/02/1986
Category: Gossip
When I hear the name of Richard Body I hear the sound of flapping white coats.
John Major 1994
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Eurosceptic
It's being so cheerful as keeps him going.
Sir Bernard Ingham 1983
explaining to political journalists why Francis Pym had made a gloomy economic speech in the same week in 1981 that the Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Howe reported signs of recovery.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.
Alastair Campbell 1998
Category: Reshuffles
That well known semi-detached member of the Cabinet.
Sir Bernard Ingham 1986
explaining to political journalists how John Biffen, a member of the Cabinet, could have described the Prime Minister as being a liability to her party and should be replaced by a collective leadership.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: Politicians (as a species)
The reason that there are so few women politicians is that it takes too long to put make-up on two faces.
Maureen Murphy
Category: Women in Politics
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
Indira Gandhi
Category: Politics is...
At the House of Commons sword-fighting is strictly taboo. Back-stabbing, on the other hand, is quite a different matter.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: House of Commons
