Labour will only survive in government if we can restore the sense of mission upon which it was founded. — John McDonnell Goals Copy Share Image
I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
You can't change the world through the parliamentary system. — John McDonnell Change Copy Share Image
New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag. — John McDonnell Alive Copy Share Image
Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour. — John McDonnell Britain Copy Share Image
Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs. — John McDonnell Employment Copy Share Image
If corporations and rich people who made fortunes out of us during the boom are not paying their fair share then reform… — John McDonnell Corporations Copy Share Image
Tightening up border and immigration controls go nowhere in addressing the underlying causes of terrorism in our society and in our world. — John McDonnell Immigration Copy Share Image
I do not want to be associated with those that are willing to support undermining the basic human rights that socialists have… — John McDonnell Basic human rights Copy Share Image
The assertion that the war in Iraq has had no role in increasing the terrorist threat to Britain is clearly just intellectually… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
My ambition is to learn to play the trombone. My wife pulls my leg about it. I'll find time, my neighbours might… — John McDonnell Ambition Copy Share Image
I made the case for public ownership in 'Another World is Possible' - a manifesto for 21st-century socialism - as it is… — John McDonnell Another world Copy Share Image
There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it. — John McDonnell British Copy Share Image
Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making. — John McDonnell Decision making Copy Share Image
I saw the Blair-Mandelson regime as a coup, and I think it was a well-funded coup as well - resources obviously came… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's… — John McDonnell Education Copy Share Image
New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade… — John McDonnell Civil liberties Copy Share Image
Nationally, unrestrained Heathrow expansion has prevented the balanced development of regional airports and their economies and the planning of an integrated transport… — John McDonnell Environmentally friendly Copy Share Image
The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were… — John McDonnell Corporations Copy Share Image
Since John Smith's death and the Blair/Brown takeover in 1994, party members have watched the way in which an elite leadership group… — John McDonnell Death Copy Share Image
People realise that if Labour is to fulfil its founding goal of transforming our economic and political system into a more equal,… — John McDonnell British Copy Share Image
We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change. — John McDonnell Change Copy Share Image
Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power. — John McDonnell Coalition Copy Share Image
Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth. — John McDonnell Economic growth Copy Share Image
What Gramsci is all about is hegemony: you win the battle of ideas and it dominates. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
In terms of mainstream media it's very difficult to break through if you're on the left. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Only the political process offers the real prospect of a united Ireland at peace with itself. — John McDonnell Ireland Copy Share Image
Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities. — John McDonnell Labour Copy Share Image
I call a spade a shovel, straightforward. If I disagree with someone, I tell them. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
