The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here ‘freelance’ and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter.
I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.
The unpopularity of raising corporate or personal income tax has been a straight jacket constraining Labour’s thinking on how best to invest and grow the economy.
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.
My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.
Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine’s specialities.
When I was a GLC councillor, we won and held London as Labour was imploding nationally – running popular campaigns against the Thatcher Government and fighting on our own agenda.
Labour has repeatedly emphasised that in order to avoid a cliff edge for our economy there will need to be a time-limited transitional period between our exit from the E.U. and the new lasting relationship we build with our European partners.
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone ‘just doing my job’ or the infernal self-checkout machine.
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it is not labour, is not counted as work. Should my neighbour pay me to do precisely the same tasks, it would contribute to economic growth.
The genius of the market is supposed to lie in its ability to allocate society’s resources to their most efficient uses without central direction. Labour has long recognised that efficiency doesn’t always correspond with what is socially optimal or, in other words, ‘fair.’
We’re removal men. It’s hard labour. I’ve come to the conclusion being a forward is probably the worst thing in rugby. Looking at backs, they play kick and laugh, run and clap and we get absolutely flogged.
Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.
Labour has lots of groups of people, whether it’s public sector workers, nurses and so on who will push their policies out for them. The right-wing equivalent, whether it’s businesses, the Church etc, don’t say anything. They all hide behind Conservative politicians.
Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means of delivering what the public wants.
The Labour party has, from the beginning, been made up of diverse factions; that’s its beauty – asking it to become cohesive is like trying to find one shampoo that will care for the hair of everybody in Angelina Jolie’s house.
It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.
I’m not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I’m the only one who’s questioned about it.
Europe has massive challenges in completing the single market, the free movement of labour or benefits.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?
It’s estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
I feel very lucky to be part of our Labour family in Ilford North, where we conduct our debates in an inclusive and supportive manner.
First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I’ve threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
I can not forget the moment when I first saw my baby and touched her. My husband Srivatsan was with me in the labour room and his presence energised me.
No, I wouldn’t vote Labour, dear, if you paid me. I vote Conservative.
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
A lot of people didn’t feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
And some of what we’re doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.
The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when you think you can’t possibly labour for another moment, and that, paradoxically, is when you have to push hardest.
Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they’re quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.
Labour’s approach is not about what is politically right, it is about what is right for the country.
Let the message go out – a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there’s no way I want to be involved in the Labour Party again.
Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
Unlike Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, I am not ideologically obsessed with the structure of our rail network; for me it is a matter of practicality.
Outlier’ came together pretty quickly. There’s no real telling why that happens, sometimes the thing is just more intricate and takes longer you know, there’s actual labour to be done in terms of sound design whereas other things are much freer.
I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party’s gone.
Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there’s nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.
My mother was in labour for two full days before having me on a sunny August afternoon. She went into labour on the 7th, and I chose to make my big entrance on the 9th.
In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the ‘New Annual Register,’ the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind.
The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.
The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.
All my labours were very different, but that moment when you look in your child’s eyes for the first time and that feeling of love wooshes into every part of your being was the same for all of them.
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too – at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
