Quotes by Johann Lamont - Page 2

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Arms
Disappointed
Instinct
Labour
Labour Party
Deliver
Fold
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The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Chosen
Labour
Labour Party
Scotland
United Kingdom
Partner
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When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Doors
Inevitable
Recruit
Scotland
Brightest
Forced
More And More
Shut
Slammed
Universities
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We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing us by denying opportunities for others to attend college or university.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Education
Government
Boast
College
University
Free
Attend
Below
Costing
Denying
Opportunities
Scratched
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I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Available
Labour
Westminster
Chances
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I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Cinema
Glasgow
Sunday
Sunday School
Always Me Remember
Billy
Graham
Mattered
Preachers
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Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Arrangements
Parliament
Scotland
Best Always Believe
Best Interests
Best Believe Always
Constitutional
Powers
Test
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My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Coastal
Discussion
Glasgow
Granny
Reports
Weather
Winter
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In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Departure
Ferry
Linked
Loss
Loved Ones
Sadness
Soil
Working Life
Arrival
Begun
Friendships
Island
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There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Colleagues
Danger
Dinosaurs
Rejected
Scottish
Westminster
By The People
Sets
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Fair tax does not mean we don't want to encourage wealth creation. Wealth creation is how we raise the money to pay for world class schools and hospitals, for proper care of the weak, and dignity for the elderly.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Creation
Dignity
Elderly
Hospitals
Weak
Wealth
Money World Wealth
Proper
Raise
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There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Presumption
Real World
Communities
Constitutional
Problematic
The Real World
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My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Sailing
Crossing
Boats
Freight
Inner
Uncle
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The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn't make any sense.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Assets
Be Kind
Scotland
Lender
Resort
Separated
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Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Equality
Country
Desire
Fighting
Inspire
Overwhelming
Overwhelming Desire
Scotland
Social
Social Justice
Taught
Achievements
Drive
Nation
Fight
Failings
Shaped
Whose
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I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Trust
Conversation
Debate
Feels
Impossible
Lifetime
Lost
Taxation
Almost
Politicians
Engage
Guess
Start
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With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.
Johann Lamont / Schoolteacher
Determination
Emergence
Responding
Routes
Transport
Bold
Businesses
Communities
Customer
Establish
Reliable
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