Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.