You know when I came, became leader of the Labour Party, I mean all this seems very odd now, but when I became leader of the Labour Party we got 90 per cent of our money off the trade unions - and that was a huge point of criticism.
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We've got to be the party of business, small business and large business, because they produce jobs.
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Now I'm proud of the fact incidentally, I mean you know I know I get a lot of brickbats on this, I'm absolutely proud of the fact that we've got successful entrepreneurs, that we've got disaffected Conservatives who look at the state of the Conservative Party, say that's hopeless, that's incapable of governing the country properly and support the Labour Party.
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"We've got the opportunity as a coalition government with a judge-led inquiry whose terms are agreed by all three party leaders, we have got the opportunity to get it to a much, much better place, " the prime minister said.
We got it right and we are the only party that can take people from recession to recovery and guarantee that we have growth in the future, and I'm very confident about the basis of growth in this country.
But actually we did, you know, drop votes from even our '97 performance, anybody who imagines that we've got a God-given right to be the principal party of opposition isn't looking at history.
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For 20 years we had not the faintest knowledge who funded the Conservative Party, from where they got their money, from which country they got their money or what was the relationship between any contributor and government.
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In fact not for thirty years has a governing party actually increased its vote share on the last General Election, and we got more votes than Labour.
The party really kicked off when the cast of Queen musical We Will Rock You got the crowd singing and clapping along to its title track, followed by We Are The Champions.
The killjoy question of economics dampens the atmosphere somewhat during the question-and-answer session at the Greenwich party, with Mr Champion having to acknowledge that "we've got an airline business, and quite rightly, these people need to make money".
It's a terrible mess but it's a temporary mess, I mean it's not a deep wound for the Labour Party, it's a irritating rash, and now we've got to stop scratching it and get on with something more serious.
But I wanted to be able to leverage the value of the technology that Fiat had and see financial recognition for what we were bringing to the party, knowing full well that the value of whatever it is that I got back was absolutely contingent on the execution of a plan to bring Chrysler back and to make it a viable entity.
But what I don't want to do is for us as a country, or as a party, to shy away from the prospects of international competition, because I think we've got the best workers on Earth, we've got the most innovative products on Earth, and if we are able to compete on an even playing field, nobody can beat us.
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