All Out War Quotes

“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.”
― Tim Shipman, All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class

“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.”
― Tim Shipman, All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class

“...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

“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.”
― Tim Shipman, All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class