There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
Quote by Lucy Powell
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There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
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Lucy Powell Quotes
- Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
- As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
- What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
- The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
- It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
- It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.
- Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
- Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
- In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
- We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
Best Quotes
- I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
- The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
- Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
- Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.