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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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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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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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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
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If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.
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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 House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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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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
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