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Tony Benn RIP







glasfryn

glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
RIP Tony
 




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Lenny Rider

Well-known member
Sep 15, 2010
5,434
Whatever your politics you cannot deny he was a great man, my favourite Benn quote, which perhaps they should tell all school leavers. "Try to be a road sign rather than a weathercock"
 


Elvis

Elvis

Well-known member
Mar 22, 2010
1,413
Viva Las Hove
I had the privilege to hear him speak once, a very principled man.
 






Dick Head

Dick Head

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Jan 3, 2010
13,632
Quaxxann
A sad week for socialism.
 


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knocky1

Well-known member
Jan 20, 2010
12,968
A true Gentleman in more than one way. Saw him a few years back for an evening in the Pavilion on Worthing Pier. A delightful evening. A fine representative for Old Labour in my eyes.
 








pastafarian

pastafarian

Well-known member
Sep 4, 2011
11,902
Sussex
Even as a Tory Boy i have no regrets in saying this is sad news ...A true political giant......Politics desperately needs more people like Mr Benn.
 
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Super Steve Earle

Super Steve Earle

Well-known member
Feb 23, 2009
8,362
North of Brighton
Always thought he was an old fraud. Converted from Anthony Wedgewood Benn from a privileged background to bitter, yet articulate, Tony Benn the Left wing Labour activist.
 


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dougdeep

New member
May 9, 2004
37,732
SUNNY SEAFORD
A great politician and a lovely man. I've never known an MP talk so much sense.
 






Peter Grummit

Peter Grummit

Well-known member
Oct 13, 2004
6,769
Lewes
Fantastic speaker. Was lucky enough to hear him at the fringe meeting immediately after he marginally lost the deputy leadership to Healey in 81, when Kinnock stabbed him in the back. More recently, heard him at Charleston.

Even if you didn't agree with all he said, he came across as incredibly reasonable and persuasive in person as a truly principled man.

PG
 


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Pogue Mahone

Well-known member
Apr 30, 2011
10,744
Super Steve Earle said:
Always thought he was an old fraud. Converted from Anthony Wedgewood Benn from a privileged background to bitter, yet articulate, Tony Benn the Left wing Labour activist.
Click to expand...

Here we go...

Why should being born into wealth preclude you from having political beliefs that are about supporting those less fortunate, about creating a society fairer for all?

It's not where you're from, it's where you're at.
 


Questions

Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
24,893
Worthing
One of the few polititions that I have truly admired. When I first started taking any interest in politics he was a rare dissenting voice amongst the right wing avalanche engulfing - it seemed to me at the time - any whimper from the left. He never wilted though and stood toe to toe with his political adversaries and the cruel right wing press.
RIP Mr Benn.
 


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soistes

Well-known member
Sep 12, 2012
2,643
Brighton
A man of principle, a brilliant speaker, and by all accounts a devoted and loving family man. He really cared about parliamentary democracy as well as socialism, and he had a huge understanding of British history, from the perspective of the working class, rather than the "kings and queens" variety. Politics and the country will be worse off without him.
 




Questions

Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
24,893
Worthing
Pogue Mahone said:
Here we go...

Why should being born into wealth preclude you from having political beliefs that are about supporting those less fortunate, about creating a society fairer for all?

It's not where you're from, it's where you're at.
Click to expand...

Indeed.
 




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