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born 1942 Wales
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a British politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn.
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Never mistake the enthusiasm of the minority for the support of the majority.
Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.
The army of brokers, jobbers and other quaintly named parasites.
We support the efforts to keep the pits open until exhausted.
What has happened is that there are people who, for reasons best known to themselves, have voted for maintaining division in our country.
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
We must not look for some kind of Messiah.
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. And I warn you not to grow old.
I don't believe that the policies on which we fought the [1983] election ought to be ejected like some sort of spent cartridge.
Oh I detest him. I did then, I do now, and it's mutual. He hates me as well. And I'd much prefer to have his savage hatred than even the merest hint of friendship from that man.
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve.
[Margaret Thatcher is a] stubborn Salome who wants the miners' heads on a plate.
[Labour has] always believed that the community as a whole should have a greater control over these “commanding heights of the economy”.
I celebrated this by going to the PLP meeting [and saying], "I'd like to congratulate the parliamentary party on this real step forward for proper recognition of women in politics. And nobody's willy has dropped off."
Someone up there likes me.
We believe there should be reforms in the EEC which would benefit all the members. If these were not achieved, our policy is to preserve the ultimate option of withdrawing Britain. That option would not, this time, need a referendum, as it did before.
We live in a country afflicted by a senile and selfish capitalist system...where families are homeless, sick people unattended, children untaught whilst building workers, nurses and teachers are unemployed
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