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By David Blunkett MP and Bernard Crick
“Labour’s aims and values are not found in any single great book nor in the writings of one person. Democratic socialism has not lacked considerable thinkers from the time of Robert Owen, through William Morris, George Bernard Shaw, Beatrice and Sidney Webb to twentieth century writers like R.H. Tawney, Harold Laski, Douglas and Margaret Cole and Richard Titmus. However, Labour’s aims and values are more often found in a host of popular manifestos, pamphlets, editorials, articles and speeches written by ordinary political activists. When the Party’s current aims do not spring from these diverse, grass-roots sources then we begin to loose our affinity with the people we represent.”
