The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

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

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

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

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words