Neil Kinnock - Years Quotes

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I don't think anyone could accuse someone who has been leader of the Labour party for more than seven years of being impulsive.

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The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve.

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I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council—a Labour council—hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers. I'm telling you - and you'll listen - you can't play politics with people's jobs and with people's services. The people will not abide posturing.

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