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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
Galloping
Obsolescence
Britain
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Today

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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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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 we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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