It’s time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition. Ken Loach Read Quote
The thing is, it’s much easier to be a rightwing populist than a leftwing one, because the left always have to explain why things are the way they are. The right can just blame the foreigners. Ken Loach Read Quote
If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to lower wages, and that leads to precarious work. Ken Loach Read Quote
Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can’t criticise him. People from the time remember him as an imperialist, a hard-right politician, very instrumental in the oppression of Ireland and the attempt to defeat the general strike. Ken Loach Read Quote
The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week. Ken Loach Read Quote
It’s more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don’t want to see the same old faces. Ken Loach Read Quote
The old Craven Cottage stadium at Fulham, before they built the river stand; that was a great place to watch football. When the football wasn’t very good, people used to turn around and watch the boats on the river. Ken Loach Read Quote
What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process. Ken Loach Read Quote
What strikes me – we’re apparently at the mercy of an economic system that will never work and the big question is, how do we change it, not how do we put up with it. Ken Loach Read Quote
The far right was on the march in the 1930s, and we defeated the fascists through a great united working-class effort. That sense of unity and strength is what gave people confidence to change things. Ken Loach Read Quote
