The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.