An Election Anthology
It's all off. Harold's decided to be crowned instead.—A junior minister.
He [Mr. Heath] has behaved like a sulky little boy who won't give up his lollipop.—Lord Byers.
We are not in the least a sulky little boy. —Edward Heath.
I find absolutely beyond me the task of ade- quately conveying the depths of the disgust, derision and nerve-shredding tedium that the next twenty-seven days are going to produce in me. —Bernard Levin.
Clearly no decent person can vote Conser- vative.—Mrs. Lena Jeger in the Guardian.
Mrs. Jeger has gained one at least for Mr. Heath.—Letter in the Guardian.
The only decent action an elector can take is to abstain from voting.—Leiter in the New Statesman.
The fifty-seven Communist candidates standing on March 31 are all that stop the coming general election from being a farce.—Letter in the Daily Worker.
We've not solved everything, by golly, we haven't.—Jantes Callaghan.
THWART HOGG (on a wall in the constituency
of Si. Marylebone).
It may be that when they come to write the history of the Labour government the rest of us will be forgotten and the real tributes will be paid, as I believe they should, to Jenny Lee for what she has done for the arts.—Harold Wilson.
I am full of quiet confidence.—Edward du Cann.
My statistics show that in describing his own efforts in public Mr. Wilson has used the ex- pression 'guts' three times, 'tough' five times (including one 'incredibly tough'), 'frank' or 'frankly' (not a characteristic I normally asso- ciate with him) six times, 'honest' and 'honestly' four times (including one 'honest and straight- forward' and one 'fair, frank, straight and honest'), 'purposeful' or 'purposive' twice, 'dynamic' on numerous occasions.---Quintin Hogg.
Mr. Short, the Government Chief Whip, has decided to withdraw his collection of doodles by prominent Labour members from an ex- hibition. The Conservatives were arranging to analyse the doodles.—BBC news bulletin.
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