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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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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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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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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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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for there is all the difference in the world.
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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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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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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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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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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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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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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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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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 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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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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