“Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.”

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we’ve seen in over 70 years.

We wouldn’t want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We’d be rich!

If I was a Greek citizen I’d be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

But there’s certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He’s a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won’t bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that’s politics.

I am delighted at Des’s support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

I know there’s an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

It’s the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that’s failed.

The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

A right is a responsibility in reverse.

If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.

The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.