I’m no communist. I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
BORIS JOHNSONChurchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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