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.
HAROLD WILSONA week is a long time in politics.
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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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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