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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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Roy Jenkins
Age: 82 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 11
Died: 2003
Died: January 5
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British Politician
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County of Monmouth
Roy Harris Jenkins
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I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
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I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy.
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We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected
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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
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There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
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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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Inheritance Tax - it is, broadly speaking a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
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The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life
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Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.
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