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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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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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The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
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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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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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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 flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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I am a public library
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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 thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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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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There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
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