Best quotes by John McDonnell on Government

Checkout quotes by John McDonnell on Government

  • The decision over Heathrow expansion exemplifies the style of policy-making that starts with capitulation to a powerful self-interested lobby, blatantly fixes a public consultation and then drives through a policy that destroys any vestiges of green credentials the government had left.
    - John McDonnell
  • When I was a GLC councillor, we won and held London as Labour was imploding nationally - running popular campaigns against the Thatcher Government and fighting on our own agenda.
    - John McDonnell
  • When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?
    - John McDonnell
  • Labour will only survive in government if we can restore the sense of mission upon which it was founded.
    - John McDonnell
  • Our supporters just want a Labour government. They want a Labour government that does what Labour governments are expected to do. They expect a Labour government to provide them, their families and their communities with the support and security they need, especially in difficult times.
    - John McDonnell
  • The interests of big corporations have so permeated government that its major decisions are indistinguishable from the boardroom demands of the leading companies in each commercial sector.
    - John McDonnell
  • If the government is injecting public money, it should also take the right to oversee board appointments, executive pay, and future business operations.
    - John McDonnell
  • Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making.
    - John McDonnell