Words matter. These are the best Johann Lamont Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people’s ambitions and concerns.
My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I’m more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.
We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
I’d always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.
My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
We will renew our party, to rebuild our land – and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.
What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
That’s a really healthy thing – family will always protect you from yourself.
I firmly believe that Scotland’s place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power’s sake.
There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs… the Nationalists who can’t accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.
When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.
I didn’t particularly want to go to Westminster – not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.
Scotland has chosen to remain in partnership with our neighbours in the U.K. But Scotland is distinct, and colleagues must recognise that.
The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.
We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing us by denying opportunities for others to attend college or university.
I’m pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.
The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule – not London rule.
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.
I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade – to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
While I’m leader, nothing will be off limits – there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man’s own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.
The government don’t want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren’t any consequences.
Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.
If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.
I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.
If you don’t accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things.
In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
Maybe I was just born to argue with men.
