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Ferguson, Ron
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Friday, 05 June 2009 20:19 |
Nye Bevan - Letter to Jennie Lee, 1931
As for you, I tell you what the epitaph on you Scottish dissenters willl be - pure but impotent. Yes, you will be pure all right. But remember, at the price of impotency. You will not influence the course of British politics by a hair's breadth. Why don't you go into a nunnery and be done with it? Lock yourself up in a cell away from the world and its wickedness ... I tell you it is the Labour Party or nothing. I know all its faults, all its dangers. But it is the party that we have taught millions of working people to look to and regard as their own. We can't undo what we have done. And I am by no means convinced that something cannot yet be made of it.
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