Quotes about Tory Policies

Martin McGuinness

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.

Lucy Powell

As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.

Harold Wilson

Now for the first time … we had… reached the situation where a newly-elected Government with a mandate from the people was being told, not so much by the Governor of the Bank of England, but by the international speculators that the policies on which we fought the election could not be implemented, that the Government was to be forced into the adoption of Tory policies to which it was fundamentally opposed. He had to admit that was what his argument meant, because of the sheer compulsion of the economic dictation of those who exercised decisive economic power.

In 1964, after the newly elected Labour Government announced its new policies and budget, the financiers and speculators who control the international money markets thought the new budget and policies ill-advised. The made their concerns known to the Governor of the Bank of England who in turn recommended to the new Prime Minister that he cut the budget drastically and adopt a new more conservative set of economic policies. The Prime Minister was shocked that a non-elected small group of men—mostly not even British, were trying to reverse a set of policies that the voters in a democracy had elected. However, he was more shocked when he discovered that if he didn’t “obey” the financiers could act in concert, attack the British Pound, dramatically increase the interest rates the government would have to pay to borrow short term money, and ruin the British economy. Wilson had to comply. In America we refer to this situation more delicately by saying that “the markets will not react well to one proposal or another”. Our politicians intimidate themselves. The only way a democracy can really have control over its own policies and budgets, is to not be in debt to anyone.

Mehdi Hasan

Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to.

Nicola Sturgeon

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.

Chuka Umunna

With Tory privatisations in the past we've seen how service users can end up losing out and getting a raw deal.

Alistair Darling

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Rhys Ifans

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

Chuka Umunna

When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack on trade union rights, it is natural that many in the Labour party should be sceptical of Tory talk on devolution - sceptical, even of government deals with Labour-led local authorities.

Emily Thornberry

The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases.

Barry Gardiner

The Tories' favoured trade deals post-Brexit are likely to make regional inequality worse, by focusing on the best deal for the City of London at the expense of smaller firms across the country.

Hilary Benn

The Tories claim that they have changed. Their stance on foxhunting makes it absolutely clear that they haven't. They know the public doesn't agree with them. They know that this is about animal cruelty, pure and simple.

Tory Policies Quotes