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When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

I can't influence how other parties choose to vote.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.