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"If champagne ever wanted cheering up, it would drink Tony Banks."
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Tony Banks, Baron StratfordTony Banks, Baron Stratford
Anthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford was a British politician who served as Minister for Sport from 1997 to 1999. A member of the Labour Party, he was a member of Parliament from 1983 to 2005 and subsequently as a member of the House of Lords. He was well known in the House of Commons for his acid tongue.
"If champagne ever wanted cheering up, it would drink Tony Banks."
"I think my exact words were "Fuck me!"
"She behaves with all the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa constrictor"
"Since the great days of Jimmy Greaves, its the only time anyones managed to score five times in a Chelsea shirt."
"He was a fairly competent chairman of Housing [on Lambeth Council]. Every time he gets up now I keep thinking, "What on earth is Councillor Major doing?" I cant believe hes here and sometimes I think he cant either."
"Living proof that a pigs bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to Parliament"