If One Meets A Powerful

If Democracy Is Destroyed In Britain, It Will Be Not The Communists, Trotskyists Or Subversives But This House Which Threw It Away. The Rights That Are Entrusted To Us Are Not For Us To Give Away. Even If I Agree With Everything That Is Proposed, I Cannot Hand Away Powers Lent To Me For Five Years By The People Of Chesterfield. I Just Could Not Do It. It Would Be Theft Of Public Rights.

No Medieval Monarch In The Whole Of British History Ever Had Such Power As Every Modern British Prime Minister Has In His Or Her Hands. Nor Does Any American President Have Power Approaching This

I Think To Understand How The Democratic Process Works Is The Most Important Thing, So People Don't Get Frightened By It, And Get Put Off, And Give Up.

Undoubtedly The War With Iraq Was A Tragedy. I Think It Was Also A Crime.

We Used To Have A War Office, But Now We Have A Ministry Of Defence, Nuclear Bombs Are Now Described As Deterrents, Innocent Civilians Killed In War Are Now Described As Collateral Damage And Military Incompetence Leading To Us Bombers Killing British Soldiers Is Cosily Described As Friendly Fire. Those Who Are In Favour Of Peace Are Described As Mavericks And Troublemakers, Whereas The Real Militants Are Those Who Want The War.