Claire Fox Quotes

Claire Fox

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 5, 1960

I've been inspired by the rank and file groups of Leavers that have sprung up from Warrington to Watford and beyond, organising pro-Brexit gatherings and marches. I stand in solidarity with their democratic spirit and determination to fight.

Claire Fox

Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies.

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I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it irritating that we have a culture where people are more interested in trivial gossip than substantive matters.

Claire Fox

An ever-widening definition of abuse can incite a culture of fear and complaint: encouraging teachers and girls to name and shame could mean labelling sexually awkward teenage boys as sex pests.

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There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like.

Claire Fox

I confess I had butterflies doing the first BBC 'Politics Live' of 2020. It felt like the first day back at school.

Claire Fox

Are Labour members inherently bigoted against women, unable to objectively assess political attributes beyond the gender prism? This accusation seems particularly ludicrous when levelled at a party so much in thrall to identity politics that it sometimes feels more like a student union than an organisation set up to defend the working class.

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I joined the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) in the early '80s. I'd be in it still but it was wound up at the end of the nineties.

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There was such a sense of relief on the left when New Labour came to power that certain orthodoxies could not be challenged. People became desperate to hang on to the ascendancy of left ideas without really questioning what they were about.

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The first job of the Brexit Party is to make sure Brexit's delivered and if that involves electoral pacts, that might happen.

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I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.

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One thing I got from my parents was that they talked about politics all the time. They weren't educated or academic but they were interesting about and interested in the world.

Claire Fox

I confess that when I hear Boris Johnson's slogan let's get Brexit done it sends a chill. Because it's let's get Brexit done so we can focus on the important domestic issues.

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Yes, we know that obesity is an issue, but it isn't the end of the world as is reported everywhere.

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To hear the Conservatives issue a command that all Leave voters must vote Tory, this seems insultingly complacent.

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I would never say don't have an argument.

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I think that the European Union negotiators have gotten a shock. They were shocked when they realised the Brexit trade negotiations were not just going to be a continuation of those that happened under Theresa May.

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One thing we can be sure of is that Brexit will leave its mark on the E.U.

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You see, Leavers desperately need a psychological win. We need to feel our vote for change can actually change things.

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We need a younger generation that's prepared to grow a backbone, go out into the world, take risks and make difficult decisions. Otherwise the future doesn't bode well for any of us.

Claire Fox