Tony Benn
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn or Wedgie Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician who was a Member of Parliamentfor 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s. Originally a "moderate", he was identified as being on the party's hard left from the early 1980s, and was widely seen as a key...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 April 1925
suicide war differences
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
suffering today britain
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
fundamentals politics excuse
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
important politics broadcasting
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
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If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false
jam politics tomorrow
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
witty thinking people
When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
stress government law
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable laws of nature. But the economy is created by people, supported by government intervention, regulation, statute and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while the majority face a life of relentless work, stress and periodic financial insecurity.
want politics more-time
I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
library politics public-library
I am a public library
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When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good