One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
HAROLD WILSONDebating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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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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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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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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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.
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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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[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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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