Neil Kinnock
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock PCis a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 March 1942
bloody
I've been so bloody respectable and responsible... I'm going to be a bloody old nuisance.
blair decision election last mr
Mr Blair made the decision before the election that it would be his last as leader,
time
There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
background critical experience people reserved whose
If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
event experience labour party prime
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
promote somebody
I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
minded
People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
everybody prime
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
excess fills fine
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
ballot call strike until
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
cultural society stain
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
house decision reform
I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.
thinking feet talent
Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.
spirit wilson bourgeois
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.