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Johann Lamont Quotes

Scottish - Politician | July 11, 1957 -

The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.

Work Home Partner Party London Rule

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

Change Leader Wait Problem Back Sit

There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.

Change Job World Questions Talk

If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.

Free Believe Care Personal I Believe

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

Politics Purpose Game Think You

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

Consequences Possible Something Spend

If you don't accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things.

Problem You Debate Accept Hard Then

I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.

Trust People Me Start Impossible

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

Change Party Want Way Changing Only

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

Bad Party Place Election See Coming

I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.

School Me Church Remember Cinema Go

My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.

Winter Weather Listen Discussion Out

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