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We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Century Compatible Development Economic Essential Merely Need Politics Progress Reaffirm 21St Century

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We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Also Basic Consumer Democracy Government Guarantees Need Online Our Part Particularly People Protect Public Services Standards Steps Take Wellbeing Which Yes

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Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

~David Blunkett

Topics: About Citizenry Doom Engagement Miss Participation Point Politics Us Wider Would

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It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Community Development Learning Mistake Personal Separate Work

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In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Adult Ageing Develop Lives Makes New New Skills Older Sense Skills Society Support Working

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We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Avoid Back Get Got Old-Fashioned People Politics Represent Seek Self-Inflicted Touch Wounds

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We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Been Created Draw Early Engaging Force Instead Labour Labour Party Must Never Our Party People Promoting Remind Represent Roots Self-Determination Self-Interest Self-Reliance Sought Who Why

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Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Day Different Members Out Parties Political Political Parties Politics Society Sort Very Without Work Would

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To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Airport Also Appropriate Because Both Capital Close Dangerous Democracy Distance Fast Journeys Live London Perverse Punish Quite Some Those Train Well

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Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Am Any Badly Been Being Brought Certainly City Compared Constituents Desperately Down Familiar Going Hard Hard Life Having Life Like Paid Pit Too Up Which Working I Am

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: June 6th, 1947

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