There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
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There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive.Roy Jenkins
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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
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A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
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