We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.
Ed Miliband 13/12/2012
Category: Quote of the Day, Labour Party
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)
The Labour Party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody is too exhilerated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
Harold Wilson
Category: Labour Party
My Right Honourable Friend is advised that to disregard a 'Keep Left' sign is an offence.
James Callaghan 04/11/1947
Category: Labour Party
The Labour Party of the present is one of the most doctrinaire and bigoted organisations in the world.
Lord Hailsham
Category: Labour Party
Anyone who votes Labour ought to be locked up.
Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein 1959
While campaigning for Churchill in Woodford.
Category: Labour Party, Voting
There is a difference between intellectuals who rise with the Labour Movement and those who rise in it.
Herbert Morrison
Category: Labour Party
They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
John Major 1992
On Labour's attutude to Europe.
Category: Labour Party, Europe & Britain
There are some of us, Mr Chairman, who will fight, fight and fight again to save the Party we love.
Hugh Gaitskell 03/10/1960
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Labour Party
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
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
Michael Foot 20/01/1981
Category: Labour Party, Militant Tendency
People can say what they want in the Labour Party.
Michael Foot 25/01/1981
Category: Labour Party, Free Speech
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.
Neil Kinnock 10/1982
Category: Labour Party
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.
Neil Kinnock 06/01/1981
Category: Labour Party
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.
Roy Jenkins 1972
Category: Labour Party
Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.
Roy Hattersley 09/08/1992
Category: Labour Party, European Union , Socialism
The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the Liberal Party.
Clive Anderson 1992
Category: Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Oneliners
