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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.

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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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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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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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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, democracy inevitably leads to Marxism - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.
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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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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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