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If Democracy Is Destroyed In Britain, It Will Be Not The Communists, Trotskyists Or Subversives But This House Which Threw It Away. The Rights That Are Entrusted To Us Are Not For Us To Give Away. Even If I Agree With Everything That Is Proposed, I Cannot Hand Away Powers Lent To Me For Five Years By The People Of Chesterfield. I Just Could Not Do It. It Would Be Theft Of Public Rights.

The Civil Service Is A Bit Like A Rusty Weathercock. It Moves With Opinion Then It Stays Where It Is Until Another Wind Moves It In A Different Direction

There's People On The Left Who Say, The Ballot Box Is A Waste Of Time. Forget Them. When Mandela Voted For The First Time At The Age Of 76 There Was A Lot Of Grown Men, Including Me, Wept Buckets. That Was What It Was About. It Doesn't Solve Things, But It Gives You The Mechanism To Hold To Account The People With Power.

Cabinet Members Are Soon Overwhelmed By The Insistent Demands Of Running Their Departments. On The Whole, A Period In High Office Consumers Intellectual Capital; It Does Not Create It....the Less Ministers Know At The Outset, The More Dependent They Are On The Only Sources Of Available Knowledge; The Permanent Officials.

It Would Be As Unthinkable To Try To Construct The Labour Party Without Marx As It Would To Be To Establish University Faculties Of Astronomy,anthropology Or Psychology Without Permitting The Study Of Copernicus, Darwin Or Freud, And Still Expect Such Faculties To Be Taken Seriously