The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse.
I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010. . . I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later. . . Let’s not go there.
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.
I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.