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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

~Felix Dennis

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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

~Ferdinand Mount

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What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.

~Fergus Henderson

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It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries shed jobs and the construction industry went into decline.

~Fiona Barton

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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

~Frances O'Grady

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Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

~Frances O'Grady

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They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

~Francis Maude

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We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

~Francis Maude

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We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.

~Francis Maude

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Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

~Francois Fillon

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