I Am On The Right Wing Of

Parliamentary Democracy Is, In Truth, Little More Than A Means Of Securing A Periodical Change In The Management Team, Which Is Then Allowed To Preside Over A System That Remains In Essence Intact. If The British People Were Ever To Ask Themselves What Power They Truly Enjoyed Under Our Political System They Would Be Amazed To Discover How Little It Is

I've Got Four Lovely Children, Ten Lovely Grandchildren, And I Left Parliament To Devote More Time To Politics, And I Think That What Is Really Going On In Britain Is A Growing Sense Of Alienation. People Don't Feel Anyone Listens To Them.

If You Want Your Debt Lifted You've Got To Sell Your School And Your Hospitals.

I Was Radicalised By Being A Minister. That's When I Saw How The System Really Worked. And That Is Not A Very Usual Process, But It Certainly Happened To Me: It Gave Me A Lot More Experience, It Helped Me To Understand Where Power Really Lay, Develop Strategies For Undermining Or Changing It, And So On. But That Isn't The Norm. Mr Gladstone Moved To The Left As He Got Older, And One Or Two Other People Have, But Normally You Swing The Other Way.

I Did Publish A Bill Once Called "common Sense" With A New Constitution For Europe Called The "commonwealth Of Europe," Setting It All Out - What It's Rights Were, How It Would Work. And I Think That That Will Be Where Is Has To Go. But I'm Not Anti-european, I'm Just A Democrat, A Very Committed Democrat. I Don't See Why The Hell I Should Obey A Law Made By Someone I Didn't Elect And Can't Remove.