Frases de Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, barón Home of the Hirsel, caballero de la Orden del Cardo y miembro del Consejo Privado , XIV conde de Home desde 1951 hasta 1963, fue un político conservador británico, primer ministro durante un año desde el 19 de octubre de 1963 hasta el 16 de octubre de 1964.

Fue el último miembro de la Cámara de los Lores en ser nombrado primer ministro. Para convertirse en primer ministro prefirió renunciar a su título nobiliario, participando en las elecciones para ingresar a la Cámara de los Comunes.[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 2. julio 1903 – 9. octubre 1995
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Alec Douglas-Home: Frases en inglés

“This is a counter-revolution. After half a century of democratic advance, of social revolution, of rising expectations, the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth Earl.”

"Labour would reject move to postpone M.P.s' return", The Times, 21 October 1963, p. 6.
Harold Wilson speaking at Manchester, 19 October 1963, shortly after Douglas-Home's appointment as Prime Minister.
About

“I suppose, when you come to think of it, he is the fourteenth Mr Wilson.”

David Butler and Gareth Butler, "Twentieth Century British Political Facts", p. 292.
Television interview with Kenneth Harris, 21 October 1963, responding to Wilson (see below).
Prime Minister

“No, because I do my sums with matchsticks.”

Explore Parliament website, accessed 6 September 2006 http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/03/0378/0378_.htm
Asked whether he could become Prime Minister in an interview with The Observer in 1962. The comment was taken to refer to his lack of economic ability.
Foreign Secretary

“Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.”

D.E. Butler and Anthony King, "The British General Election of 1964", p. 147.
Remark frequently made during the 1964 general election campaign.
Prime Minister

“Why do we need wealth? Security and peace. This is our goal and we passionately seek it because it is the way of life which we are charged by our religion to practise.”

Speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet at Guildhall (11 November 1963), quoted in The Times (12 November 1963), p. 12
Prime Minister

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