spilldig Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 R.I.P Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Clowning Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 A man who stood by his principles, R.I.P. Tony One of the few Politicians worth respecting. RIP Mr Benn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 One of the last honest politicians. Sadly like dinosaurs they are fast becoming extinct to be replaced with self serving charlatans, liars and spivs. so very true, Taxman. RIP Mr Benn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank ryan Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Not prone to having heroes - but tony benn was one. He died old and happy, his extraordinary life was well lived, no tragedy here, just sadness and pride - RIP comrade. ---------- Post added 14-03-2014 at 18:27 ---------- The Labour party is now the party of the pseudo socialists, Blair, Miliband,The Benns, and a cast thousands. None of them has the slightest idea as to what life is like for the people that they pretend to represent, they spend their lives talking the talk while at the same looking down from the lofty position that they were born into and never leave behind. There is no longer a party that truly represents the working[ and non working ]classes any longer and for New Labour:rolleyes: to pretend to be that party is the biggest deceit possible. beautifully put Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 R.I.P Mr Benn posting this in memory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1MHV0IosIY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beer Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 He did this country a great service by making the Labour Party unelectable for more than a decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost rider Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I am always very suspicious of someone claiming to be a man of the people who comes from a privileged background but i respected him same as i respect other members of the Labour party who are eurosceptics and choose not to follow the party line.I like a rebel.For me Dennis Skinner is still the only honest politician around who does it for the right reasons.One day the Labour party might convince me to vote for them again but i doubt it.RIP Tony Benn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blake Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 people will remember the famous quote that he was choosing to stand down as MP for Chesterfield because he 'wanted to devote more time for politics'. the truth was he knew the Chesterfield voters were going to eject him from parliament in the 2001 election. And Labour did lose the seat in 2001. Not really his fault, to be sure as the seat was changing in character from the Labour banker it had been before and any Labour candidate might have struggled to keep it, but a big reason why he decided to quit was because he did not want the last time he was a big news story on the tv being him standing at the count and being the losing candidate, presumably wearing the rather silly grin that he always had even before he decided to shift 180 degrees to the left after having been an MP for 25 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Warm words about Tony Benn had to dragged out of Margaret Becket on the news today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blake Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 he was clearly a very endearing man. That does not mean that he could not possibly, also be an imbecile. what the political commentators find especially interesting is just WHY he decided to totally change tack, in the earlier to mid 70s and move so radically left. Thatcher being elected Tory leader may have concentrated his mind and being so clearly right wing, he may have thought they'll fail, and we the left can come in when they mess up. trouble is they didn't mess up. Benn helped in a big way, to mess Labour up instead. So the Tories won the next 4 elections after Thatcher became Tory leader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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