If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.
I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.
If someone walked along any high street anywhere in London, and probably anywhere in the country, and looked into a letting agency, they would see a sign saying, 'No benefits here. ' In other words, anyone in receipt of a state benefit is not allowed to apply for a private rented flat from that agent.
I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.
I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.
Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.
I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.
Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation. . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.
I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.