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I should have been a Trappist monk.

~David Blunkett

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I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Because Behaviour Big Confidence Convinced Cry Get Go Help Lacking Law Lot Means Offend Out People Quite Quite A Lot Really Sometimes Trouble Young Young People

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If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Always Create Dead Emerged Fact Feel History Insecurity Order People Politics Prevail Progressive Right Secure Sense Stability Supreme Then You

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I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

~David Blunkett

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If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.

~David Blunkett

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Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.

~David Blunkett

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With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Admission Also Children Code Community Decisions Director Fair Fairness Local Needs New Provide Role Rooted School Schools Standards Strengthened Transparent Undertaken Will

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As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.

~David Blunkett

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Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.

~David Blunkett

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I am nothing if not a loyalist. After 46 years in the Labour party, I've grown weary of the cry: 'If only we had a new, shining, revamped leader, all would be well.'

~David Blunkett

Topics: After Am Cry Grown Had Labour Labour Party Leader New Nothing Only Party Shining Weary Well Would Years I Am

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: June 6th, 1947

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