Liquid grease that slips and slides to the lowest level of responsibility.
Neil Kinnock
On the SDP Liberal Alliance.
Category: SDP
It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.
Shirley Williams 09/06/1986
On David Owen
Category: SDP
The most foolish course now for those who are determined to swing the party back to sensible Socialism, would be to abandon the struggle within the party, to talk of forming new parties.
David Owen 1975
Category: SDP
The SDP Liberal Alliance is more united than the Tories or the Labour Party. We solved the problem of how to get two parties to work closely together for the first time in modern British politics.
Alan Beith 13/09/1983
Category: SDP
If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.
Cyril Smith 18/01/1981
Category: SDP
The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.
Shirley Williams 29/03/1981
Category: SDP
I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.
Shirley Williams 25/05/1980
Category: SDP
The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the right message in 1960, and I believe it is still the right message today.
Roy Jenkins
Category: SDP
There has been a lot of talk about the formation of a new Centre Party. Some haver even been kind enough to suggest that I might lead it. I find this idea profundly unattractive.
Roy Jenkins
Category: SDP
