Margaret Thatcher had declared there was "no such thing as society", but for a brief, heady time it felt as if we had forged a hedonistic new society of our own.
Digby Jones, in a previous apostacy, in 2008, declared there was in Britain "no better place than the north-west in terms of having a diverse manufacturing base, whether it's engineering manufacturing at Rolls-Royce, automotive manufacturing at Bentley or pharmaceuticals manufacturing at AstraZeneca".
If there was a "London School" of painting, as he controversially declared there was in 1976, he was one of the least social members of it, and at the Royal College of Art, where he taught, he kept his distance from the Pop Art movement he had helped to start.To put Mr Kitaj in a box was difficult anyway.
All declared there was no issue.
A few days earlier he declared there was "no Kurdish problem".
BT declared there was nothing it could do and issued Pallant with a letter of deadlock.
Ryan himself declared there was no point in trying to "fake" party unity.
Finally, they telephoned an imam, who declared there was no sin.
Earlier this month, he declared there was "much, much more that needs to be done".
Three days after Eric Chavez declared there was a high level of concern, the level was back down to normal.
In those seats declared, there was significant evidence that the Tory vote was increasing and in some places beating Labour.
