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Neal Lawson
3 quotes
“The alternative is to appeal to the country's latent progressive majority that goes back decades. Last Thursday, this progressive vote amounted to over 60%, while the Tories scored just 29%. To mobilise it means recognising that difference and diversity, within a broadly common value set, is a strength not a weakness and that the best future is negotiated not imposed. Critically it allows us to win elections by speaking to the interests of the centre and left, not the right.”
Neal Lawson (born 1963) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There is a way to oust the Tories, and stop them ever rising again. Why won’t we do it?", The Guardian (9 May 2023).
“We need a political class that can spend and regulate in the right way, that knows its job isn't to usher in a better world for us, but to create the conditions in which we can build it ourselves. [[Caroline Lucas|[Caroline] Lucas]] knew that, but our political and democratic system is so broken it fails to people like her; it wears them down and spits them out.”
Neal Lawson (born 1963) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Caroline Lucas was the best PM Britain never had – but she’s shown us how to fix our politics", The Guardian (8 June 2023).
“[T]he case for PR has been ratcheted up enormously by how disproportionate the outcome of the election was, up against a Labour-ist mindset that means justify ends and it doesn’t really matter, democratically, how you get there.”
Neal Lawson (born 1963) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in "Labour divided over calls to scrap first past the post after landslide win", The Guardian (17 July 2024)