Politics is a blood sport.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.