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Class War issue 81: Quotes
"Further to our meetings and discussions with them, we are offering the Bloomsbury Forum our full support of the Freedom Party. The leadership team consists of successful businessmen and top civil servants. The accounts will be run by a lecturer and audited by a certified accountant. A board of trustees has been set up, headed by an esteemed barrister."
Former BNP high fliers Steve and Sharon Edwards encouraging BNP supporters to jump ship to a new far-right party. They are very impressed by people with posh jobs aren't they?
"If you define socialism as equality of opportunities so that all people in our country have the best chance to realise their potential, that's what I want to do"
Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in the Daily Mirror on 9th March. Class War's definition (and indeed any dictionary on sale in your local bookshop) tends to include concepts such as community control of production and distribution, equality and the absence of the profit system. Still it's nice to see Gordon is maintaining his party's long tradition of knowing nothing about socialism!
"...the Queen and other members of the Royal Family had been concerned at the Princess's lack of appetite over the Christmas period. She ate a jam tart and it caused great excitement."
Lady Glenconner commenting on the illness of the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret. Class War has two pieces of advice for Margaret - eat your dinner you silly cow, and when you run a bath it is normal to put in cold water as well as hot.
"Cor life is very busy for you Urban Alliance people innit ay. Why don't you get out there and start killing some foxes I killed a few this morning and by the way stop putting stickers on my car."
Yet more rigorous intellectual debate from the world of killing animals for fun.
"Get out of bed you lazy fuckers. While you're lying there wanking, I'm out there killing foxes!"
Telephone message left on the Urban Alliance phone on 5th March 2001. Nice to see that at the time the 'country sports' fraternity were obeying the call to stay out of fields due to the foot and mouth outbreak.
"The Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union calculates that Vauxhall has made about £100,000 profit per employee over the past decade"
The Guardian 20th January 2001 discussing the proposed closure of the Vauxhall plant in Luton. How much has your boss made out of you in the last decade?
"The technology is there to make a DNA database for every one of the UK's 60 million citizens"
Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester, who devised a system to identify criminals from the unique characteristics of their genes. 17 years late, we enter the Big Brother state.
"I don't want to give it to her. She's horrible."
Five year old Anna Engstrom, from Suffolk, when asked to give a bouquet of flowers to Princess Anne. What a well brought up child!
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