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With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.
- David Blunkett
#Children
#Community
#New
#School
#Will
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
- David Blunkett
#Accept
#Consequences
#Responsibility
Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.
- David Blunkett
#Country
#Democracy
#Up And Down
#Work
I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
- David Blunkett
#Built
#Honesty
#Reputation
#Sometimes
Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.
- David Blunkett
#Day
#Political
#Politics
#Society
#Work
Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.
- David Blunkett
#Information
#Intelligence
#Security
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.
- David Blunkett
#Business
#Finance
#Government
#Song
#Who
My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.
- David Blunkett
#Game
#I Am
#Integrity
#Liar
#Time
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
- David Blunkett
#Health
#Learning
#Parents
#Strategy
We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve.
- David Blunkett
#Build
#Help
#Know
#Performance
#Support
I should have been a Trappist monk.
- David Blunkett
#Been
#Monk
#Should
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.
- David Blunkett
#Development
#Officers
#Police
#Response
To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact.
- David Blunkett
#Change
#Create
#Genuine
#Impact
#World
There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.
- David Blunkett
#Good
#Justice
#Service
#Together
#Youth
Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.
- David Blunkett
#Activity
#Harassment
#People
#Violence
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.
- David Blunkett
#Children
#Education
#Responsibility
#Six
How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.
- David Blunkett
#Balance
#Challenges
#Freedom
#Privacy
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown.
- David Blunkett
#Answer
#Boldness
#Brown
#Home
#Hosting
It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.
- David Blunkett
#People
#Political
#Power
#Privilege
#Way
If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.
- David Blunkett
#Liberty
#Name
#Nature
#Society
#Way
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.
- David Blunkett
#Believe
#Commitment
#Democracy
#Duty
#History
#Space
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.
- David Blunkett
#Chance
#Democracy
#Great
#History
#Where
When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
- David Blunkett
#Exercise
#Good
#Me
#Park
#Travel
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.
- David Blunkett
#Commitment
#Myself
#Patriotism
#Politics
Faith in technocrats over politicians is not a trend from which Britain is exempt.
- David Blunkett
#Faith
#Over
#Politicians
#Trend
#Which
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