Political Insults & Putdowns

Quotes and Insulting Quotations from Harold Wilson

He immatures with age
On Tony Benn

All the little gnomes in Zurich and the other financial centres about whom we keep on hearing
On merchant bankers

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty
On leading the Labour Party

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power
On being Foreign Secretary

After half a century of democratic advance, the whole process has ground to a halt with a Fourteenth Earl
On Sir Alec Douglas-Home

As far as the 14th Earl is concerned I suppose that Mr Wilson, when you come to think of it, is the 14th Mr Wilson
Sir Alec Douglas-Home in reply