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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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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.
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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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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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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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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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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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If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, democracy inevitably leads to Marxism - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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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 we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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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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