When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.