The Wit and Wisdom of... John Golding

I would show Foot the opinion polls, and he would say:

'You're wrong! There were a thousand people at my meeting last night, and they all cheered.'

And I'd say:

'Yeah, but there were 122,000 outside saying you're crackers.

John Golding, Labour MP and member of the NEC, on the Labour election campaign of 1983, speaking in 1995 on BBC 2 documentary Labour in the Wilderness