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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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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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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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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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