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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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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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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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