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

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

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.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

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

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.