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. Roy Jenkins Read Quote
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. Roy Jenkins Read Quote
I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn’t have to have his friends say it so often. Roy Jenkins Read Quote
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. Roy Jenkins Read Quote
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. Roy Jenkins Read Quote
