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Topic History of: Tony Benn dies ......
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Pru wrote:
A lovely person outside of party political games
... and a very good constituency MP too, Pru
He never allowed his national lunacy to get in the way. |
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JK2006 wrote:
His championship of Concorde got a million Brownie points from me.
The only aircraft NEVER to have found a customer (to buy the planes!)
** Air France and BA had them - but they were "given" to them (in lieu of cash) as they were (then) state owned airlines. |
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Pru |
A lovely person outside of party political games, and, that most rare of things these days, a politician who knew of more than only politics. It's a measure of how poor news coverage is now that his most extraordinary achievement, taking on Parliament, the electoral system and single-handedly forcing through a change to the peerage system, has barely been mentioned. I found much of what he said contradictory and wrong, but he was certainly one of the great Parliamentarians of his time. |
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Mr Reason |
Fair enough............I just Wiki'ed his listing.........varied good, varied bad.....but I'm not going to quote anything as I can't be sure Wiki is right
My memories of him date back to the early 80's and his battles with Thatcher and also within the Labout opposition......my view, clouded by his speaches at that time, are of a man who had lost the influence from within Government so took a decision to carve out a niche for himself as the experienced voice of old socialism, almost single handedly being a rallying point against 80's economics and in effect 'change'..........
But thats history, and now is now |
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JK2006 |
His championship of Concorde got a million Brownie points from me. |
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