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“How dare you take our longed-for victory, the electorate’s sacred and precious trust, and throw it back in their individual faces and the faces of dedicated and hardworking Labour MPs?”
Rosie Duffield (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In endeavouring to bolster up the tottering edifice of imperialism, in addition to the direct use of violence, the monopoly capitalists of the imperialist countries invariably rely upon the labour aristocracy as a social prop and life-saver to sap the revolutionary will of the proletariat, to fool and divide the revolutionary people and to resist the proletarian revolutionary storm.”
Peng Zhen (1902–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All throughout my time in the Labour Party, every meeting I went to, I always had my rant [...] They always used to say: "Why don’t you go and join the Tory party?" This went on for years. And then I did.”
Lee Anderson (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was going to vote no. I went into the no lobby to vote no, because I couldn't see how I could support the bill after backing all the amendments. I got into the no lobby and I spent about two or three minutes with a colleague in there. The Labour lot were giggling and laughing and taking the mick and I couldn't do it: In my heart of hearts, I couldn't vote no. So I walked out and abstained.”
Lee Anderson (born 1967) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Explaining in a GB News interview why he abstained on the Safety of Rwanda bill, as cited in "Tory MP Lee Anderson did not vote against Rwanda bill because Labour MPs 'giggled' at him", The Independent (18 January 2024).
“I have to be very careful what I say here. I'm disappointed by the fact that they are playing to other parties' policies in order to discuss it all. Whereas the Labour Party in the past have been so strong and so active in combating and standing up for themselves, I'm surprised that on this particular issue, it's unfortunate that it's been played into.”
Luciana Berger (born 1981) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Melissa Kite in "Labour should have fought back on immigration, says Euan Blair's girlfriend" The Telegraph (17 April 2005)
“I'm glad that I left the Labour party [...] Everything that has happened since then proves that I was right to leave. The great party that I joined is a shell of its former self.”
Luciana Berger (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The abuse didn't stop when I left the Labour party. I have a threshold for how bad it is. If I take a screenshot of something it's pretty bad. Just in the last few days I've taken quite a number of screenshots. They have all come from the left.”
Luciana Berger (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[When asked who was responsible for continuing issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party] I sat in meetings with Jeremy Corbyn. Ultimately the leader is responsible and must take responsibility.”
Luciana Berger (born 1981) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Luciana Berger on antisemitism, misogyny and the Labour party trigger ballots" New Statesman (28 October 2019).
“The Labour Party is not a southern people’s agenda, it is an expression of hope for people that felt that they have been left out, we have campaigned across the local government and indeed the teeming masses in all the local government have felt that they have been left out.”
Jonathan Asake wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I regard my position as that of a public trustee, with immense responsibilities. I do not feel that I have any right to send my undiluted opinions into one out of every six houses in this country every day. I enclose, for example, an article by Philip Snowden [the Labour leader] which appeared in the Daily Mail a few days ago.”
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett (1911), quoted in Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth, Northcliffe (1959), p. 407
“I think it very essential to the welfare of this Empire that Labour should have a proper newspaper. We have the only representative Parliament in the world. I should like a really representative Press.”
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Frank Dilnot, the editor of Daily Citizen, the official newspaper of the Labour Party (1912), quoted in Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth, Northcliffe (1959), p. 434
“The truth is you have to get on top of the reading as soon as possible and you have to keep in mind that this is the sum of people’s YEARS of hard labour, sweat and pain that you hold in your hands. Without being able to meet all the people who make that thing in your hand possible, you have to conjure up their presence, interact with every single book with great reverence.”
Yemisi Aribisala (born 1973) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How she starts with her cookery books and the process in whittling them down to her longlist (8 February 2022)
“Enter the contemptible George Galloway. After Liverpool won the Champions League on Saturday, the former Labour and Respect MP tweeted his congratulations to the winning team ... then traduced Tottenham Hotspur fans, many of whom are Jewish, by writing: "No #Israël flags on the Cup!" He meant: no sticky Jewish fingers on British football.”
Tanya Gold (born 1973) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How can Corbyn call Trump racist, while ignoring anti-Semitism?", The Telegraph (4 June 2019).
“Performance of tertiary education institutions will specifically need to be targeted. One option is to tie some part of the government’s institution grant to achieving improved governance, capacity, quality and labour market alignment.”
Miriam Altman first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Very little beats tertiary education as a poverty-reducing investment, but it needs to be done right. 2019
“If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble. The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy. We need to remember and learn from the lessons.”
Ken Loach (born 1936) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in an article by Yvonne Roberts "The Spirit of '45: where did it go?" The Observer (27 March 2013)
“The Labour party is part of the problem, not the solution. The Greens have many admirable policies, but we look in vain for a thoroughgoing analysis for fundamental change. We need a new voice, a new movement – a new party.”
“[On antisemitism in the Labour Party] It's funny these stories suddenly appeared when Jeremy Corbyn became leader, isn't it?”
“Unless we get Labour MPs who believe in that manifesto last year we won't get in power. If they've been going to the demonstration against him outside Westminster... those are the ones we need to kick out.”
“Labour HQ finally decided I'm not fit to be a member of their party, as I will not disown those already expelled. Well, I am proud to stand with the good friends and comrades victimised by the purge. There is indeed a witch-hunt. Starmer and his clique will never lead a party of the people. We are many, they are few. Solidarity.”
Ken Loach (born 1936) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter statement over multiple tweets announcing his expulsion from the Labour Party, as cited in "Ken Loach: Filmmaker kicked out of Labour Party 'for supporting expelled members'", Sky News (14 August 2023)
“The whole antisemitism issue has been substantially revealed as a campaign that is not based on fact. It's based on political determination to do a number of things, to remove people from the left, to protect the state of Israel, which many people, many Jewish people in the Labour Party, oppose, oppose this campaign.”
Ken Loach (born 1936) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ken Loach claims antisemitism is being used to oust Labour left politicians" PA News Agency as reproduced by Yahoo! News (3 June 2023).
“[On Tony Blair, then Labour prime minister] Wouldn't trust him with my dog. Wouldn't trust him with my budgerigar.”
Zac Goldsmith (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a country, we have a youthful nation with very high unemployment rates. The government is quickly fixing this and these private companies have hijacked this process, they take these youth to bonded labour.”
Betty Nambooze (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You are trading people’ Nambooze tells labour exporting companies", article by Teddy Tracy Nayiga on PML Daily, 8 July 2019.
“Don’t call it labour. You are trading people.”
Betty Nambooze (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You are trading people’ Nambooze tells labour exporting companies", article by Teddy Tracy Nayiga on PML Daily, 8 July 2019.
“The liberals believe this is another pitch from Boris [Johnson] to the right wing of the Conservative party and that the Islamophobia within the Conservative party is every bit as corrosive as the anti-Semitism within Labour. My own view is that there is not nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory party.”
Rod Liddle (1960–2026) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Boris is wrong about burkas" The Spectator (11 August 2018)
“I'm actually going to be voting in Northern Ireland and unfortunately the Labour Party is so anti-democratic in Northern Ireland that they allow people to join but they don't put up candidates. [...] So I'll be voting for a pro-union candidate in Northern Ireland.”
“The mind boggles when it comes to Sadiq Khan. In many ways, he is a faceless phantom – a fascinatingly bland Labour apparatchik incapable of an original thought or phrase. And yet somehow he has managed to build himself into the consummate dictator-bureaucrat, London's own answer to Leonid Brezhnev or Raul Castro.”
Sherelle Jacobs wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being so casual and cynical about being happy to lose the Muslim vote plays into a wider darker narrative which Labour doesn't want to fuel, because it's not who we are.”
Ayesha Hazarika (born 1975) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ignoring George Galloway would be a huge mistake for Keir Starmer", i (1 March 2024).
“[On Robert Jenrick's defection to Reform UK] I realised he wasn't just leaving because he was unhappy, he wanted to burn the Conservative Party to the ground. That is what Reform wants, not to hold Labour to account or transform this country for the better, but to destroy our party. I am never going to let that happen.”
Kemi Badenoch (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All those who labour for Christ need a holy rest.”
Dushantha Lakshman Rodrigo (born 1968) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christmas Pastoral Letter by the Bishop of Colombo (24 December 2020) Diocese of Colombo
“It's more a case of giving it less thought...last time I really missed racing and I know I'm going to feel just the same when the baby's born. I came back (in 2007) and I'm not saying I started back running too soon 12 days after the birth but rather the scale at which I ramped it up. I had gone through a difficult labour and I didn't give my body enough time to recover.”
Paula Radcliffe (born 1973) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paula Radcliffe not to make an instant return to athletics after birth of second child, Mirror.co.uk, 13 June 2010.
“The Labour Party breached the Equality Act by committing unlawful harassment against Jews by employing antisemitic tropes and by characterising complaints of antisemitism as fake smears. The cases adjudicated, says the EHRC report, were "the tip of the iceberg".”
David Hirsh (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have labour laws, people must read and understand them and I tell them every day, there is no one who can fire you for saying the truth, let them fire you if you are lying.”
Joyce Nonde-Simukoko (born 1957) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stop Being Cowards and Don’t Allow Yourselves to be Exploited by Employers, Simukoko Tells Zambian Workers by Chief Editor. June 3, 2020. Retrieved 6/11/2023.
“There’s dignity in labour”
Lillian Dube (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the 1960s, the left backed Israel. Aged 10 in 1967, I cut out news stories each day of the six-day war. In 1973, Israel, caught off guard by Egyptian and Syrian forces in the Yom Kippur war, was again the underdog, supported in Britain by the Labour opposition but not by the Heath government.”
Jon Lansman (born 1957) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How can I, as a leftwing Jew, show support for both Palestinians and Israelis?", The Guardian (20 November 2023)
“[Is Labour never having a female leader "shameful"?] Yes. [...] Oh, it’s horrible. There’s still sexism, which is why you can never take your foot off the accelerator.”
Margaret Hodge (born 1944) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Margaret Hodge: Confronting anti-Semitism in Labour was harder than fighting the BNP", New Statesman (18 February 2023)
“I want to be an employer of labour and control my resources and destiny rather than depend on anyone for my progress.”
Halima Hassan Tukur wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such experiences include rape, physical injuries, hard labour, forced marriage, neglect and exploitation,”
Zainab Lawal Gummi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes I sensed manipulations because we had an overwhelming victory, especially in Awka-South but the opposition party made all efforts to see that the votes that were cast by numerous supporters of the Labour Party were cancelled and the reason why it took so long to declare the results since Saturday the election ended and the results just came out this Monday evening of 27th February.”
Orogbu Obiageli wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't understand how it is acceptable to be handing out such disgusting literature outside Labour's conference quoting one of the 20th century's most notorious antisemites and architects of the Final Solution, Reinhard Heydrich.”
Karen Pollock wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Labour Party Marxists guide to motions at the conference suggests that at least some of their supporters are party members.”
Karen Pollock first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in "Throw out antisemitic party members now, Corbyn urged", The Times (27 September 2017)
“We have elected Labour politicians suggesting that antisemitism has been "weaponised" – a suggestion that it is being used to promote some other agenda.”
Karen Pollock first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How many more times must we condemn antisemitism in Labour?", The Times (27 September 2017)
“There is no challenge, obstacle or difficulty that we cannot overcome or surmount if we imbibe the nature of Christ who said in Matthew 11:28 that ‘come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Remi Tinubu (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Labour itself is innocent of transphobia, both within its membership and from some of its key figures, who have failed to show full and public solidarity with trans communities. Anti-trans discourse is very much alive on the left in Britain, in trade unions and in local party branches.”
“The Labour revolution knows no limits. Give it five years and this farm we were standing in could be collectivised, populated by strapping Soviet boys looking doe-eyed at tractors.”
Tim Stanley (born 1982) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journalist’s joke was filthiest thing on Keir Starmer's farm visit", The Telegraph (1 July 2024)
“The bourgeoisie does not understand the labour question.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Action Française (30 July 1908), quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), p. 310
“Labour insiders are more aware than most voters of the danger of the weird alliance between punitive Muslim extremists who believe women are inferior, homosexuals should be killed etc and the usually white hard-left Corbynites whose social agenda is completely different but share Islamist hatred of Israel and the West.”
Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham (born 1956) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Labour would be unwise to appease Muslim activists", The Daily Telegraph (7 May 2024).
“I want to see a Palestinian state existing alongside a safe and secure Israel and what frustrates me so much is that what Hamas has done over the last few days has set back the cause of peace that I am so desperate to see in the Middle East and that people across Labour are desperate to see in the Middle East. But terrorism is not the way to get there and I am appalled by what we have seen.”
Rachel Reeves (born 1979) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking on Times Radio, as cited in "You must believe Hamas are terrorists to be in Labour, says Rachel Reeves", The Telegraph (9 October 2023)
“He [Rishi Sunak] must eschew complex, technocratic schemes, and focus on clear retail policies aimed at his own voters. He needs to forget about appealing to those who have already made up their minds to vote for Left-wing parties, or who always back the Greens, the SNP, the Lib Dems or Labour. He must give floating voters concrete reasons why they would be better off if he is reelected.”
Allister Heath (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The PM apparently believes that he has wrong-footed Nigel Farage by calling an election for July 4; he must now make a bold offer to Reform's crucial electorate. He needs to be firm on Brexit, and highlight how Labour is bound to begin a gradual sell-out.”
Allister Heath (born 1978) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There are just 1,000 hours to save Britain", The Telegraph (22 May 2024).
“[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)