I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

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

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.