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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Obsolescence
Britain
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Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
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The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.
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The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
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The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
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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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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
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If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
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Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
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There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
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Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
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I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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