A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect