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He asked to see me again. I think he wants me for my body.

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You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

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Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

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Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric care.

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The next election will bring an influx of over 120 new MPs who will be overwhelmingly on the Left.

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The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

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I can't think of a more appalling contrast between this wedding beanfeast and what is happening in Ireland.

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The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.

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One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

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Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

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Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

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You can judge politicians by how they treat refugees; they do to them what they would like to do to everyone else if they could get away with it.

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You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

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The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

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I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

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There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

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I just long for the day I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lampposts and that they've got a proper government that represents the people of Saudi Arabia.

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I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'Abolish the GLC', because I think it would be a major saving and would have released massive resources for more productive use.

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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

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