Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
John MajorIn housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
John MajorI think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
John Major