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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.
Tony Benn
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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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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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The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.
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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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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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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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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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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 peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.
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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 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 on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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