Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

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

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.

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.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

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.

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