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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Harold Wilson

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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Afford Buy Country Egg Five Get Person Tories Year
The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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Country Forhfet Heat Industry Method Outdate Place Practice Restrictive Revolution Side
It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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Clear Country Person Quote Three Time Year
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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Reject Restrain September Wage
The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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Belief Bound Limit Only Power
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Office Party Power Whichever
[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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Conservative Country Criticism Eighty Government Meed Ofcourse Produce Report Scientist Shall
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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Bring Cumulative Effect Economic End Finance Matter might Month Rebellion Sanction Week
One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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Another Increase Man One Price Wage
The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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Crusade Labour More Nothing Party
There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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Five Nauseat Pay Prime Minister Society Something System Times Twenty Utterly
The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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Coach Labour Party Stage
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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Ability Affect Common Duty Government House Majority Make Quite Small
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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Ability Asset Believe Good Night Greatest Jhead Sleep State
This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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Along Apart Bit Difficulty Drive Either Everyone Exhilarate Lot Rapid Seasick
I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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Freedom Freely Hear Little Nauseated Perhaps Phrase Press Use

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

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