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1 " ...Andrew Feldman put £2,000 behind the bar, and [David] Cameron told a joke about a farmer inviting a new neighbour to come to his house for a party where there might be dancing, drinking and ‘rough sex’. When the neighbour asks what to wear, the farmer says, ‘It doesn’t matter, it’s only going to be you and me. "
― Tim Shipman , All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
2 " There are two sorts of political communications operators in this business. There are people who see the population as they would like them to be, and there are people who see the population, ruthlessly, as they actually are. There is the wishful-thinking element, and there is the winning element. "
3 " If Corbyn was Rocky Balboa, when it mattered – after the manifesto meltdown and in the televised Q&As – Theresa May displayed all the charm and emotional intelligence of his Soviet opponent in Rocky IV, the robotic Ivan Drago played by Dolph Lundgren. "
― Tim Shipman , Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
4 " The mood music was good as Trump showed his serious side in the closed meeting. A Downing Street source said, "He was on top of any number of quite complex briefs and he'd only been president for a week. That impressed Theresa [May] because she's a details girl. "
5 " In the classic outline of a failed coup, the plotters had sought to oust the president without first securing the support of the military and the civil service, and without seizing the headquarters of the state broadcaster. "
6 " John McDonnell was a self-declared Marxist whose Who’s Who entry boasted that he was ‘fermenting [sic] the overthrow of capitalism’. McDonnell was on the record as saying, ‘You can’t change the world through the parliamentary system. "
