#britain

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We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.


Ann Macbeth


#america #australian #britain #could #deal

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.


John Major


#clever #could #defect #half #many

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.


John Major


#community #european #i #punch #want

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.


John Major


#afghan #ago #back #britain #come

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.


John Major


#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.


Francis Maude


#like #modern #think #touch #understand

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.


Francis Maude


#britain #contemporary #home #just #like

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.


Kevin McKidd


#american #american accent #american kids #back #become

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.


Jacques Delors


#contracts #employment #even #in the past #less

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.


Thomas Watson, Jr.


#bent #britain #corporation #effectively #influence