John Redwood Quotes

• The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

  John Redwood

  Party, Cutting, Conservative

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• The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

  John Redwood

  War, Fighting, Army

  John Redwood (2001). “Just Say No!: 100 Arguments Against the Euro”, Politico's Publishing

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• Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.

  John Redwood

  Home, Government, Spending

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• Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

  John Redwood

  Men, Goes On, Want

  "Redwood's date rape comments infuriate campaigners" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2007.

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• No change, no chance.

  John Redwood

  Chance

  John Redwood (2004). “Singing the Blues: The Once and Future Conservatives”, Politicos Pub

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• I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

  John Redwood

  Government, Needs, Want

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• Europe is my continent, not my country

  John Redwood

  Country, Europe, Britain

  John Redwood (2001). “Just Say No!: 100 Arguments Against the Euro”, Politico's Publishing

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• The EU project is to create a country called Europe.

  John Redwood

  Country, Europe, Projects

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• We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

  John Redwood

  Europe, Democracy, Needs

  "Why the EU debate still matters" by John Redwood, www.brugesgroup.com.

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• The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

  John Redwood

  Cutting, Doe, Littles

  "UK growth depends on tax rates that people are prepared to pay" by John Redwood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2012.

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• When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

  John Redwood

  Teacher, Breathing, Nurse

  "Tories promise to 'lift the weight of bureaucracy'" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

  John Redwood

  Should Have, Design, Risk

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• Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

  John Redwood

  Democracy, Constitution, Destruction

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• There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

  John Redwood

  Children, Father, Helping

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• What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

  John Redwood

  Events, Credit, Cash

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• Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

  John Redwood

  Economics, Owners, Equity

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• The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

  John Redwood

  Moving, Numbers, Growth

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• You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

  John Redwood

  Advertising, Rich, Taxes

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• There is no point in saving the currency if we lose the country that goes with it.

  John Redwood

  Country, Saving, Currency

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• The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.

  John Redwood

  Party, Cutting, Political

  "UK growth depends on tax rates that people are prepared to pay" by John Redwood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2012.

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• The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

  John Redwood

  Self, Library, Improvement

  "Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

  John Redwood

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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