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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.

Harold Wilson

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
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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Ambition Average Country Every Government Income Labour Present Worker
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
Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
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Christian Designing Early Man Message Punish Rest Ruthlessness Society System Uncaring
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
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
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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Against Debate Dog Fun Insult Like Look No Something Whip
The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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Crusade Labour More Nothing Party
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
A week is a long time in politics.
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Long Politics Time Weak
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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All Allow Bite Different Dog Every Fail Licence Oen Return Taken Time View
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Choice Smoke Vinegar
If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
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Along Argue Everybody Exhilarate Great Inside Next Rattle Seasick Speed Trouble
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
The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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Belief Bound Limit Only Power
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 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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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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