Top 50 Claire Fox Quotes

Senior Tories have exhibited a brand of entitled arrogance that implies that they own Brexit. It seems that anyone else who claims its mantle can be pushed to one side. And that includes voters.

The notion that one’s home is one’s castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington bomb.

Yes, we know that obesity is an issue, but it isn’t the end of the world as is reported everywhere.

The media are so key in a national emergency, especially when opposition parties in the U.K. are – let us say – largely in disarray, even leaderless.

Children are more restricted than ever when it comes to taking physical risks – one of the ways previous generations built resilience. Thanks to health and safety mania, leapfrog, marbles and conkers are now considered unsafe.

I’ve been inspired by the rank and file groups of Leavers that have sprung up from Warrington to Watford and beyond, organising pro-Brexit gatherings and marches. I stand in solidarity with their democratic spirit and determination to fight.

I’ve spent my whole life fighting for leftwing causes, so I can tell you, no one is more surprised than me to be standing as candidate for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party.

I am standing in solidarity with decent Remain voters who respected the rules and accepted the result and are as appalled by Parliament’s undemocratic antics as the most ardent Brexiteer.

It has to be said that one of the most impressive aspects of the parliament are the brilliant unsung translators, who ensure that whatever language you speak, you are understood.

The truth is the Tories don’t own Brexit. No party owns Brexit and that includes the Brexit Party.

I think there’s a presumption of a climate emergency which I don’t think there is. I think there’s a climate problem, I don’t think there’s an emergency.

I think the idea of journalists being neutral is very important.

People conclude that if the famous can be dragged through the virtual public square and unceremoniously dumped, the fate of any random tweeter or the average man or woman on the street can seem even more precarious.

I don’t want to be complacent.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

I have a reputation for infamy.

I think the influence of contemporary feminism has been very unhelpful to the current generation of girls. They are constantly being encouraged to speak out about how they feel victimised.

I am rather proud of my modest contribution to bringing democracy home.

I am generally enthusiastic about cities. Here in the West there is a panic. Every time we have a debate about cities, we talk about the problems of cities.

For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties.

As a left-wing campaigner for 35 years, I’ve been arrested on picket lines, led anti-imperialist demonstrations and spoken at anti-deportation protests outside police stations. I’ve made speeches at street rallies, in prisons and universities and at pubs.

I have fought for open immigration which is something I disagree with Nigel Farage on.

Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.’

I confess that when I hear Boris Johnson‘s slogan let’s get Brexit done it sends a chill. Because it’s let’s get Brexit done so we can focus on the important domestic issues.

I can only look at what Labour has done to the NHS here in Wales and it’s not a good story. That includes on education as well.

There was such a sense of relief on the left when New Labour came to power that certain orthodoxies could not be challenged. People became desperate to hang on to the ascendancy of left ideas without really questioning what they were about.

Some who campaign against hate, seem to hate the Brexit party more than they love peace.

If you feel you’re being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.

Welsh voices and Welsh communities were heard in 2016 in their tens of thousands, in their droves. They voted to leave the European Union and since then they have had that slapped in their face actually often by Labour MPs who basically said we know better than you.

Sometimes, we just take too much glee in the downfall of people in power.

TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.

I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.

We should start off with the premise that people that we’re disagreeing with are like ourselves. Try and work out why they think what they think.

To hear the Conservatives issue a command that all Leave voters must vote Tory, this seems insultingly complacent.

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

Theresa May, a Remainer, assumed that all of the Brexit voters are racist, thinks we will use this to kick British citizens out of the country; it is despicable.

When Labour leadership challenger Jess Phillips urged men to ‘pass the mic‘ to a woman on the top job, telling Sky‘s Sophy Ridge it would ‘look bad‘ if Labour failed to elect a woman, she more or less admitted not being up to the job.

Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity. Activists‘ constant stress on white privilege can lead to an unhealthy defensive posture of white victimhood.

I would never say don’t have an argument.

Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant.

Brexit has changed everything in British politics – it has blown open a cosy, zombie-like closed world of Westminster parliamentary politics. It has broken open the traditional line between left and right, which was already an exhausted tradition.

European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers. This creates a system of patronage that encourages self-reinforcing group-think and a cloying sycophancy.

Would it be preferable to argue for a fairer system whereby the unremarkable should be considered leadership material? With such an attitude, can we wonder why mediocrity is now a mark of Labour’s hierarchy?

I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days is confusing.

For many Leavers, having been demonised in the vilest terms as racists, stupid and worse, it is hard to simply employ a hug-a-Remainer approach.

Left to their own devices, the Tories will squash the life out of what Brexit really represents in terms of the chance to shake up political life and overturn a complacent status quo. We cannot let that happen.

One thing we can be sure of is that Brexit will leave its mark on the E.U.