I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.

Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is