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Allison Pearson
21 quotes
“At first glance, the diverse candidates and supporters of the Brexit Party have little in common. What unites us, I suspect, is a sense that arrogant and unaccountable politicians in the capital have stopped making life better for the average family. Have stopped even caring. Through a combination of ineptitude and shortsightedness, and a maintenance of high immigration levels for the benefit of business, not local communities, politicians have murdered hope.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why people like me are flocking to the Brexit Party", The Telegraph (14 May 2019)
“[T]hat moment when the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom entered another party conference to Abba, dancing like a stork struck by lightning ... And still they didn't demand her resignation.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theresa May was harder to get out than chewing gum", The Telegraph (24 May 2019)
“Hope. Conservatives haven’t had hope for a very long time. Honestly, they would be mad not to choose Boris. No one else comes close. Can he start tomorrow, please?”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tories would be mad not to choose Boris for leader – no one else comes close", The Telegraph (12 June 2019)
“What a great victory this is for Boris Johnson. Who else could have fought the people's corner so magnificently? Tied down like Gulliver in Lilliput with a hundred Parliamentary amendments; every which way he moved the buggers blocked him.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the beginning of the end for the Remainers, but it's the start of something that could be extraordinary for Britain. Our Prime Minister already enjoys considerable affection, but he will be loved if he can pull off the trick of harnessing a post-Brexit economic boom to the vital cause of world-class public services.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boris's win proves the soul of our nation is intact - I am so proud of what our country has done", The Telegraph (13 December 2019)
“Just six months after she won her vote, [[Theresa May|[Theresa] May]] was forced out of office because people had cottoned onto the fact she was offering Brino (Brexit in name only). Johnson is a much better dissembler than May but, with slowly dawning horror, Tory voters have realised that the man who was once their hero is Cino – Conservative in name only. No wonder people are upset. We thought we were voting for Winston Churchill and we got the shifty offspring of Edward Heath and Greta Thunberg.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My love affair with Boris is over", The Telegraph (7 June 2022)
“For any Briton unburdened by snobbery, having a prime minister who was once a conjurer’s assistant would be pretty cool, actually. Besides, what better preparation for a Conservative leadership contest than having to maintain a fixed grin while a chap saws you in half?”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dear Tories, drop the snobbery over true blue Penny Mordaunt and get behind her" The Telegraph (15 July 2022).
“If she doesn't take real, decisive action almost immediately, [[Liz Truss|[Liz] Truss]]'s honeymoon period could rival the reign of Lady Jane Grey for brevity.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The current mess could be an opportunity for Liz Truss – if she follows my 10-point plan", The Telegraph (6 September 2022)
“One thing that both sides avoid mentioning is the fact that [[Russell Brand|[Russell] Brand]] was a hugely successful womaniser and his success was enabled by the girls who threw themselves at him in huge numbers.”
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“Are the females who fell for his weapons-grade flirting and lascivious quips, for that vampish slash of Kohl under the beady, greedy eyes, all victims of "emotional abuse"? Or did they possibly make really bad choices, as most of us have done at some point, ignoring the fact that the Shagger of the Year was unlikely to turn into Mr Darcy just because he pretended to take your phone number after you'd had sex with him in the hotel opposite his gig?”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is known as "victim shaming" now, but it is a true account of how young women felt about a famous, magnetic male who flattered them. And it would be more honest, perhaps, to admit that certain girls will always throw themselves at powerful, sexy, exploitative men.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beware turning Russell Brand’s story into a conspiracy theory in its own right", The Telegraph (19 September 2023)
“But Labour will be worse" no longer works as a bogeyman to scare the Tory tribe back into the polling booth. One wag described the choice between [[Rishi Sunak|[Rishi] Sunak]] and Sir Keir Starmer as, "Which Kray twin do you prefer?" Although one can't help feeling a little wistfully that, unlike Rishi and Keir, Reggie and Ronnie would at least have got a few things sorted in their forthright East End fashion.”
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“We are already in Opposition, dear reader. Sorry to say. We are in Opposition against our own government, and have been for some time. It is sad and exhausting and dreadfully demoralising that it should have come to this, but here we are.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am a Conservative but I am done with this Government", The Telegraph (3 October 2023)
“One thing you can be sure this embarrassingly useless inquiry will not be concluding is that our pandemic policy was devised and implemented by a group of spectrummy males, many of them physicists, mathematical modellers and behavioural psychologists who would struggle to pick out their own child in a school photograph.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Covid Inquiry gets worse by the day – can no one take responsibility for anything?", The Telegraph (22 November 2023)
“At Cop28, there are many who are convinced that we face a climate catastrophe in the next few decades if net zero is not delivered. Well, I say we are certain to have an economic and societal catastrophe if we persist in trying to reach that goal by 2050. Humanity cannot bear it.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: It is morally wrong to blindly adhere to net zero – we must abandon it before it’s too late", The Telegraph (12 December 2023)
“Members of the Garrick Club, I beg you: do not surrender to the unsmiling commissars of the Cultural Revolution. They seek the elimination of you and your kind. Keep serving your awful offal. Beware, salad! Keep the ladies out and the Archibalds in.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leave the Garrick alone – men and women are different and should be entitled to their own spaces", The Telegraph (28 March 2024)
“You know, I think Nigel Farage is already the leader of the Conservatives. He certainly makes a better, more convincing Tory than Rishi Sunak.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nigel Farage is already the leader of the Conservatives", The Telegraph (11 June 2024)
“Millions of people thought that when they put their cross in the Leave box, they were going to get Boris, whom they love. Michael Gove and his team had a better idea. They shafted Boris by pulling their support from his campaign with about 11 minutes to go. In strategic terms, this was like murdering a puppy on Christmas Day. Boris's surprise withdrawal may have looked like an admission of defeat, but it was actually a brilliant tactical move which left Gove standing next to the puppy corpse holding a carving knife. Boris declaring his support for the fantastic Andrea Leadsom, Gove's main Leave rival, pretty much guaranteed that if Boris wasn't going to get the top job, neither was Judas.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Nigel Farage for Labour leader'? Crazier things have happened this week", The Telegraph (5 July 2016)
“What about the multiple charges against Boris – dreadful reputation, cavalier with detail – that were made during the questions at the end by BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, speaking with clear distaste on behalf of the Chattering Classes? Just in time, the playful Boris millions know and love emerged from solemn statesmen mode to gently rib the sanctimonious Ms Kuenssberg. Out of “that great minestrone of observations", he told her encouragingly, he had picked up "one crouton, that I have been inconsistent". It was funny, yet, at the same time, it could not have been more serious. Boris was signalling that he won't modify either his language, or his behaviour, to please a politically correct, censorious liberal minority. He will express, in language most people understand, the ideas they hold dear. The metropolitan elite will damn him as a "populist", which is another word for a persuader and a winner. We like winners.”
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“I met Jeremy once on holiday and liked him enormously. Whatever he is full of, it's certainly not hate. (What Prince Harry and Meghan are full of is another matter.) Rather, he exudes a buoyant goodwill and a refusal to take things seriously that cheers everyone up. It has deservedly made him one of the most popular TV figures of our pious, finger-wagging age. You know, I would far rather have a world full of Jeremy Clarksons than Meghan Markles. I'm sure that things feel pretty serious for him right now, with the woke witchfinders at the door, but let's hope good times and high spirits return soon. We need him more than ever. Most people know that, for God’s sake.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I would far rather have a world full of Jeremy Clarksons than Meghan Markles" The Telegraph (18 January 2023).
“Yesterday morning, I was on a train to Liverpool to cover the trial when my editor called to break the news about the new guilty plea. My first reaction was anger. The reason I had set aside a predicted three-to-four weeks away from home, putting myself through what would undoubtedly be harrowing stories of maimed and dying primary-school children, was pretty straightforward: I wanted to bear witness. I wanted to get to the truth about what should, by rights, if this still calls itself a civilised society, be regarded as a notorious massacre. The heinous mass-murder of children with a carved knife – our nation has known nothing on that scale since Dunblane – in a respectable seaside town on the west coast of Lancashire merited a full public explanation.”
Allison Pearson (born 1960) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I’m not surprised the full horror of the Southport massacre won’t be heard in court", The Telegraph (21 January 2025).