I Take A Much More Pragmatic View

When You Get Into Politics, You Find That All Your Worst Nightmares About It Turn Out To Be True, And The People Who Are Attracted To Large Concentrations Of Power Are Precisely The Ones Who Should Be Kept As Far Away From It As Possible.

I Mean I Get Loads Of Money, All From Different Sources. You Give It To Your Accountant. They Manage It. But You Pay Corporation Tax. If You're Then Taking It Out And Spending It On Yourself, You Have To Pay More.

It Is All Very Well For People With Fine Arts Degrees, But For Ordinary People Like Myself, We Want A Statue To Look Like The Person.

I Refuse Not To Have A Sense Of Humour.

I Became A Councillor Back In 1971, So If By This Stage In Politics I'm Making Lots Of Big Mistakes, Then I Shouldn't Be Here.