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 WILSONHe who rejects change is the architect of decay.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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 Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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