Luciana Berger Quotes
As Britain prepares to leave the E.U., we need to become more efficient as an economy. We need everyone contributing to our collective prosperity, in every part of the country. We simply cannot afford to waste the potential of a generation because of mental ill-health.
Berger, Luciana. "Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace." Hansard, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 17 Jan. 2019.
He was Governor-General of Korea when he made this statement.
What is interesting about this quotation, is the author. This is a typical observation of a conservative politician, but here we have the head of the Communist Party of France extolling the importance of economic capitalistic growth. Intellectually, classic Marxist economic theory had become debunked even among many of the Communist leaders.
Luciana Clare Berger is a former British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree from 2010 to 2019. Initially a member of Labour Co-op, in 2019 she left and co-founded The Independent Group, later Change UK, before joining the Liberal Democrats. A former member of the Official Opposition frontbench, she served under Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Minister for Mental Health from 2015 to 2016.