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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

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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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Labour
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.
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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 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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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for there is all the difference in the world.
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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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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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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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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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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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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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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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