, PC (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British
Labour Party
politician
, journalist
and author
, who was a Member of Parliament
(MP) from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960
until 1992. He was deputy leader of the Labour Party 1976 to 1980, and later became the Leader of the Opposition from 1980
to 1983
.
Associated with the Labour left for most of his career, he was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
and British withdrawal from the European Economic Community
.
How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.
Some fool or some trigger happy judicial finger.
[There are] judges who stretch the law...to suit reactionary attitudes.
The crisis afflicting this country, along with other countries of the Western world, is a crisis of capitalism. It is a crisis of the dominant economic system that prevails in all those countries.
I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering...I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside...what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.
It's impossible to write the history of freedom in this country without telling how trade unions have contributed to it.
It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country—and especially the rights of trade unionists—if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of semi-house-trained polecat.
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.