#labour

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work. ↗

— Toby Young

#aptitude #being #catering #even #had

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#come #doing #eighties #even #even now

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#clues #constitutional #development #experience #labour

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#australians #certainly #clearly #connecting #here

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#back #clear #crystal #just #labour

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

#almost #called #civil #civil servant #dealing

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#artisan #britain #british #consequently #country

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#elections #four #get #keep #labour

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#becomes #contrivance #each #every #human

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy. ↗

— James Beattie

#every #health #joy #labour #source