A crypto-communist lot of claptrap. (On socialism)

The truth is the Labour Party have lost all the intellectual arguments of the '80s: council house sales, nuclear, privatization, tax levels, you name it, the Labour Party fought all the battles in my early political life and they lost the lot, so they now have to conform to a world global pattern of how governments can behave and there's no going back. Show less «

What I would regard as One Nation Conservatism - that the poor and the elderly and the frail, they must be regarded as protected to the utmost of our ability - and that to me is one of the great historic strengths of the Conservative Party. Churchill (Winston Churchill) put it brilliantly: a net below which none may fall but above which all are free to rise. Show less «