David Blunkett Quotes

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We could live in a world which is airy-fairy, libertarian, where everybody does precisely what they like and we believe the best of everybody and then they destroy us.

David Blunkett

Let me say this very slowly indeed. Watch my lips: no selection by examination or interview under a Labour government.

David Blunkett

I was parodying George Bush…Watch my lips was a joke. If I were doing it again I would say 'no more selection'.

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Old Labour is the idea that you did things to people, New Labour is about enabling people to do things for themselves.

David Blunkett

I don't use or recognize the term 'bog standard' but what I do recognize is the critical importance of honesty about what some children, in some schools, have had to put up with over the years.

David Blunkett