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John McDonnell
John McDonnell
British Politician
Born: Sep 8, 1951
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New Labour has deregulated, liberalised and privatised - but every time the private sector fails it is the taxpayer who pays. John McDonnell
Time Taxpayer Every Every Time Sector Fails New Private Private Sector Labour Deregulated Who Pays
The interests of big corporations have so permeated government that its major decisions are indistinguishable from the boardroom demands of the leading companies in each commercial sector. John McDonnell
Government Big Corporations Sector Indistinguishable Leading Demands Major Big Corporations Commercial Decisions Interests Companies Each
Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit. John McDonnell
Example Profit Our Our Planet Airport How Expansion Just Being Just One Planet
Nationally, unrestrained Heathrow expansion has prevented the balanced development of regional airports and their economies and the planning of an integrated transport system maximising more environmentally friendly modes of transport such as rail linked more effectively to Europe. John McDonnell
Airport System More Development Economies Environmentally Balanced Integrated Effectively Friendly Linked Expansion Regional Modes Planning Transport Europe Rail
Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile. John McDonnell
Society Our Futile Detailed More Policies Limited Effects Producing Marginal
I'm a Marxist. John McDonnell
Marxist
We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients - with the input of the real experts: healthcare professionals. John McDonnell
Power Input Rather More More Power Healthcare Real NHS Contractors Than Managers Fewer Patients Experts Choice Professionals Need
I sneaked into an Everton match once. I'm a Liverpool supporter, but Liverpool were away, Liverpool reserves weren't playing, there wasn't even a youth match, so I took my son into an Everton match. God help me. It wasn't me. John McDonnell
God Me Youth Son Took Once Supporter Match Were God Help Help Even Reserves Liverpool Away Everton Playing
Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment is rarely the fault of individual malingering but the structural consequence of governments allowing the free market to rule our lives. John McDonnell
Suffering Fault Free Important Lesson Society Market Our Rule Our Lives Out Rarely Structural Free Market Individual 1930s Allowing Part Important Lesson Built Governments Unemployment Large Large Part Based Lives Britain Consequence
If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed the misery inflicted on so many during the 1930s. John McDonnell
Pay Radical Our Those More 1930s Misery Attention Economy Ideas Policies Witnessed May Inflicted Who Many Need
Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat. John McDonnell
Sometimes Lose Defeat Machine Cataclysmic Leads Parties Overnight Erosion Gradual Which Electoral Base
New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt. John McDonnell
Society Increasingly Worry New Oppressed Debt Labour Personal Created
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers. John McDonnell
Rights Poverty Mandatory Living Restored Tackling Employers Protect Trade Trade Union Wage Wages Effective Themselves Exploitative Workers Should Union Basic Living Wage
There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long periods without charge is one of them. John McDonnell
You People Long Liberties Locking Charge Civil Civil Liberties Some Cross Long Periods Periods Undermining Without Lines Up Just Them Sand Basic
When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn? John McDonnell
Government People Power Action Else Corporate Direct Risk Except Take Fail Governments Dominate Where Placed Turn Us Communities Whole
Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path. John McDonnell
Path Degree Out More Qualification Than Going Process Grinding Much Should Mechanical Career Career Path University
Our supporters just want a Labour government. They want a Labour government that does what Labour governments are expected to do. They expect a Labour government to provide them, their families and their communities with the support and security they need, especially in difficult times. John McDonnell
Government Difficult Our Security Support Supporters Does Provide Governments Times Expect Families Labour Labour Government Expected Just Want Them Communities Need Difficult Times
Changing leaders is pointless if the same policies are pursued. John McDonnell
Changing Pursued Pointless Leaders Policies Same
Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities. John McDonnell
Machine Support New Spontaneous Well Labour Organised
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