I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.