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Peter Shore
9 quotes
“Britain's relationship with the English-speaking Commonwealth was closer than that with the Continent. That is how the British people feel.”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks given in the Cabinet meeting to discuss Britain's membership of the European Economic Community, as recorded in Tony Benn's diary (18 March 1975), Tony Benn, Against the Tide: Diaries 1973–1976 (1989), p. 348
“What the advocates of membership are saying, insistently and insidiously, is that we are finished as a country; that the long and famous story of the British nation and people has ended; that we are now so weak and powerless that we must accept terms and conditions, penalties and limitations, almost as though we had suffered defeat in war; that though we have the right on June 5, we have no option but to remain in the Common Market age.”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech during the European Communities membership referendum (27 May 1975), quoted in David Butler and Uwe Kitzinger, The 1975 Referendum (1976), p. 183
“We don't have to have these passports, do we? Surely we can keep our British ones if we want. ... My children and grandchildren forced to abandon the old British passport!”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to the Cabinet on the new maroon-coloured EEC passports, as recorded in Tony Benn's diary (11 June 1976), Tony Benn, Against the Tide: Diaries 1973–1976 (1989), p. 579
“Cities serve and sustain the whole region around them in cultural, social and economic terms. If cities fail, so to a large extent does our society. That is the urgency of tackling the problem, and why it has to be of concern to everyone in this land.”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Manchester (17 September 1976), quoted in Christopher Warman, 'Mr Shore's new policy to bring back jobs to inner cities', The Times (18 September 1976), p. 1
“What is more worrying is the unbalanced nature of the migration, with a disproportionately high number of skilled workers and young people moving out, leaving the inner areas with a disproportionate share of unskilled and semi-skilled workers, of unemployment, of one-parent families, of concentration of immigrant communities and overcrowded and inadequate housing.”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Manchester (17 September 1976), quoted in Christopher Warman, 'Mr Shore's new policy to bring back jobs to inner cities', The Times (18 September 1976), p. 1
“Nowhere had the decay of cities in Britain paralleled what had happened to some cities in North America, but the experience of New York should provide us with a salutary reminder of just how rapidly a city could slide into decline if powerful action is not taken.”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Manchester (17 September 1976), quoted in Christopher Warman, 'Mr Shore's new policy to bring back jobs to inner cities', The Times (18 September 1976), p. 1
“The opportunity to attract industry back to the inner areas now exists in a new way in which it did not a decade or so ago. In all the major urban areas there are large tracts of derelict land and buildings lying idle and often demoralizing those who live near by.”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Manchester (17 September 1976), quoted in Christopher Warman, 'Mr Shore's new policy to bring back jobs to inner cities', The Times (18 September 1976), pp. 1-2
“Of course, to those avowed Trotskyists and infiltrators, the turning over of stones, the exposure to the light of day, will be as unwelcome as sunlight to Dracula—and predictably, we shall hear plaintive cries of witchhunts and McCarthyism.”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Swansea (4 December 1981), quoted in The Times (5 December 1981), p. 1
“Once the mass of the people had the vote, Socialists were convinced that Conservatism and all that it stood for would be swept away. Their victory seemed certain, for Conservatism which was based on privilege and wealth was inevitably a minority creed, whereas Socialism, with its appeal to social justice and economic self-interest, should recruit the big battalions of the poor and underprivileged, whom the vote would make the masters of political democracy. ... Yet it is clear that events have falsified these predictions. ... The question which must now be asked is why the fruits of universal suffrage have taken so long to ripen. How is it that so large a proportion of the electorate, many of whom are neither wealthy or privileged, have been recruited for a cause which is not their own?”
Peter Shore (1924–2001) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Real Nature of Conservatism, Labour Party Educational Series, No. 3, September 1952, quoted in R. T. McKenzie and Allan Silver, 'Conservatism, Industrialism and the Working-Class Tory in England', in Richard Rose (e…