Jess Phillips Quotes

Jess Phillips

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 9, 1981

People just don't believe we'll deliver what we say we will. They don't believe we want to listen or to understand their lives. And they don't believe we are able to do much to make their lives better.

Jess Phillips

Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means of delivering what the public wants.

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Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.

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Anyone standing for leader of the Labour party has a responsibility to speak truth, because without that we will never win power.

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Today we're more distanced from each other, the bonds formed at the local shop replaced by the massive supermarket or the stressed driver thrusting a package through a letterbox. Instead of meeting in pubs, more of us sit at home with supermarket wine and Netflix.

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For a party of the left to win, people have to have believe that government, the state, can be on their side. When I was a young mother, Sure Start and tax credits weren't just a financial lifeline, they represented hope.

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For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.

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I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die.

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The politics of hope is harder to spread than the politics of hate.

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The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.

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Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

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In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.

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Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

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I'm not usually one to heap praise on Jeremy Corbyn but I love that he doesn't drag his wife on stage for awkward snogs after his annual speech at the party conference.

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In short, that politicians do or don't have families should no longer have any bearing on their abilities to hold office or to care more or less about the future of the country.

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As a mother, I want the very best for my children. As a politician, I want what is best for all children.

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I am not into self-exploration. My family would lose their eyes in the backs of their heads if people talked about personal journeys or finding oneself.

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I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.

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If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

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When my children were little, I would chat with my husband or my mum friends about how we were superior parents to other people, or that so-and-so was lying about how their children slept through the night.

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