He addressed a grown-up party in a grown-up way. It's not going to repair anyone's gastric ulcer, but at least they know where he stands.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.