The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
Roy JenkinsI therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
Roy JenkinsA social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect
Roy Jenkins