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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
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The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
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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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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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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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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
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Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
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I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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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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The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.
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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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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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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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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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