He was first made a cabinet minister in 1979 and served constantly through 18 years of Conservative government.

"The question is how much more in the world that has been created by the last nine years of government in Washington."

Insofar as one can set out a vision for 5 years of government in two minutes, it was pretty good.

In 1990, after 11 years of Conservative government, the gap had been closed to 16 per cent.

After 13 years of Conservative government, it is the only environment Act that we have.

This was after two years of weak government and economic stagnation.

The last 30+ years of government seems to have been hell bent on removing these.

The results come 9 months before a scheduled return to democratic rule after nine years of military government.

But it provides no protection from 200 years of bad government, going back to slavery days.

Hundreds of years of decent government, then suddenly, up and off.