I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.
For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it’s called the Labour government.
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the ’70s is utterly bizarre.
Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industries, the indentured-labour service had to be dismantled by the Conservatives owing to its inevitably scandalous abuse by disreputable employers. By 2012, there were 338,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada.
I’m committed to working with business, both large and small, to make sure we don’t impose unnecessary burdens or create damaging labour shortages.
New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt.
Labour was founded to make the lives of working people better and to create more opportunities for everyone. Whether it’s aspiring to work as a nurse in a hospital or setting up and running your own business, Labour should be about ensuring fairness so that everyone has the same chance in life to reach their goals.
The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.
I’m prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the governance needed to succeed.
In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
I had a very tough upbringing. We all had to do something called ‘manual labour.’ Mostly it meant getting up at 5 A.M. and cutting grass endlessly.
Labour’s support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what’s the point?
Labour’s disastrous legacy and the Conservative success did not happen by accident: it was about the choices each party made, choices that impact on everyone.
Labour doesn’t have a monopoly on non-white people.
I’m perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal is and you manage to work towards that… that is not something which I think would be particularly more difficult with Labour than it is with the Conservatives.
Party politics are quite upsetting. I’ve been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women’s Equality Party, the National Health Action Party and now I’m not a member of any.
There’s something wrong with the Labour party. There’s something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.
Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American ‘invention.’ The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
It’s terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me up in the morning, go to training early, and take in some tips from the older training group. I would be there grumbling and complaining. After she began to reap the rewards of her labour, it definitely kindled a fire.
I’ve been going to Labour party meeting for over 50 years.
Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.
The U.K. needs a strong opposition, and Labour shows no signs of being capable of being that. The SNP is filling that void and will go on seeking to do that.
So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These two governments changed the rules governing labour bargaining, weakening trade unions, and they weakened anti-trust enforcement, allowing more monopolies to be created.
Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don’t think understand what it is like to run a business.
