Remember When Governments Were Just Stupid Rather Than Nasty?

THE WISDOM OF THE TORIES

“Political suicide can end a career.”

- John Major

“Suicide is a real threat to health.”

- Virginia Bottomley

“Anyone would think we were living on some island somewhere.”

- George Walden

“It’s not the future I’m talking about, I’m talking about tomorrow.”

- John Gummer

“The trend in the rise in unemployment is downward.”

- Gillian Shepherd

“The more important things are more important than the less important
things.”

- Stephen Dorrell

“When the IRA plant such bombs, it proves they can scare people, it
proves they can kill people, it proves nothing.”

- Peter Bottomley

“We said zero, and I think any statistician will tell you that… zero
must mean plus or minus a few.”

- William Waldegrave

“Who Sadam Hussein kills, dies.”

- Jeffrey Archer

“There’s no smoke without mud being flung around.”

- Edwina Currie

“I will never forget the 1981, or was it 1982? honours list.”

- Julian Critchley

“All those people who say that there will never be a Single European
Currency are trying to forecast history.”

- Kenneth Clark

“The British public sees with blinding clarity.”

- Michael Heseltine

“You know what they say, don’t get mad, get angry.”

- Edwina Currie

“We are not wholly an island, except geographically.”

- John Major