Quotes about Neil Kinnock

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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.

Ken Livingstone

After her husband Neil Kinnock was elected as leader of the Labour Party in 1983:

I don't see how I can get Neil to help with the shopping ever again.

Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

Mocking Labour politicians Neil Kinnock and John Smith for organizing dinners (later known as 'prawn cocktail offensive') in order to impress the financial community before the 1992 election:

Never before have so many crustaceans died in vain.

Michael Heseltine

The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies—and I rather doubt that they would—would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.