Neil Kinnock quotes - page 3
Neil Kinnock is a British politician who led the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. His leadership focused on modernizing the party and responding to changing political challenges in the UK. He later served as a European Commissioner and has remained an influential figure in British and European politics. Here are 63 of his quotes:
[T]he only reason why I espouse centralism now, the central organisation and co-ordination and government of our resources in this country, and would like to see much more of that co-ordination and organisation and control and democracy of resources in a Socialist country, is that I think that it is a structure that can give the best advantage to the people-the people I think I am here to represent, working-class people, irrespective of their nationality.
Neil Kinnock
![[Labour's] socialist argument recognised that the system of economic gambling, commercial whim, speculative profiteering and profligate waste of the earth's resources that is dignified by the title 'private enterprise' is increasingly demonstrating its inability to meet human needs for food, employment, security and fulfilment. (Neil Kinnock)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/12/neil-kinnock-argument-commercial-1009412.webp)
I'm a father. And no matter how much I try to convince myself towards the course of 'enlightenment' I know damn well that, put to the test, I'm what people would call a reactionary. I know it. I try and rationalize it but it's no good. I come to the same conclusion all the time. My children stand a chance of being hurt in the forseeable future by what's called permissiveness.
Neil Kinnock
In the years between our defeat in 1979 and our defeat in 1983 Labour was increasingly seen to be a party slipping towards impossiblism, succumbing to fads, riven by vicious divisions, speaking the language of sloganised dogma – and usually voicing it in the accents of menace. It was almost as if sections of the party measured the purity of their socialism by the distance which they could put between it and the minds of the British people.
Neil Kinnock
Neil Kinnock
Occupation: British Politician
Born: March 28, 1942
Quotes count: 63
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