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.
BORIS JOHNSONSince January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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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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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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