“Help to Work' always felt like a singularly inappropriate name for a s...” — Emily Thornberry Quote

“Help to Work' always felt like a singularly inappropriate name for a scheme which had the express intention of 'stepping up the pressure' on the long-term unemployed, rather than actually helping them into work.”

“The right to strike is one of the most important safeguards working people have in this country. It's a weapon of last resort that has served throughout history as a bargaining tool which allows unions to push for recognition of ordinary workers' rights to be paid fairly and treated with dignity.”

“The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases.”

“What a nightmare it would be if we individually had to criminalise every single abuse of every single commodity, market or financial product. There are thousands of these and new ones being invented every day. Such an approach would have disastrous implications for regulation and policy-making. Any slide towards it must be resisted.”

“The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law.”

“Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.”

“I stand by all the women who have had to deal with inappropriate behavior of any sort.”

“People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.”

“Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.”

“If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.”

“If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.”