‘The stumbling block to a solution in the post was a small group of union activists in London who seemed to think they were fighting a class war. They were being driven on by the Socialist Workers Party.’A ‘Royal Mail source’ complaining in the Daily Mail that the post bosses didn’t get it all their own way
"If the charge is youth, enthusiasm and energy, I plead guilty."
"But who?"Neal Lawson, head of Compass, the soft left think-tank, heckles at a fringe meeting when someone suggests Gordon Brown is replaced
"With or without Lehman Brothers we were headed for a crisis. But we learnt the wrong lesson. We’ve created a financial system with more institutions that are too big to fail."Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warning one year on about problems in how the collapse of Lehman Brothers was handled
"Gordon Brown and I have spoken of the hard choices needed in public spending over the coming years. We won’t flinch from the difficult decisions that will be necessary."
"The only way to reduce violence in Mexico, Brazil or anywhere else is to legalise the production, supply and consumption of all drugs." Maria Lúcia Karam, a former judge who has joined the advocacy group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition on the turn against the US backed war on drugs in Latin America
"No deal has been made between the British government and the Libyan government in relation to Megrahi and any commercial interests in the country." British Foreign Office spokesperson
‘Some in Britain believe the fight is not worth it.’Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth bemoans "defeatism" on the home front
"The modern Conservative Party is now the dominant progressive force in British politics."
"Of course we will be operating under greater public spending constraints in the coming decade than we have in the last ten years." Business secretary Lord Mandelson lets slip the government’s plans for spending cuts
"This is hard fighting and, as we have seen, the risks are considerable. But we are making progress."British defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth on the war in Afghanistan
‘Public sector pay obviously has got to reflect the prevailing conditions and, in particular, inflation has come way down.’Chancellor Alistair Darling
