Tony Benn
Anyway, there was a bit of a debate at the end when I pressed Benn on his insistence on the national state. Globalisation, I put forward, was a good thing because it offered workers in poorer countries a new opportunity for employment and wealth. And, if the world could be a fairer place with universal standards of wages and health and safety, Benn agrees in the end. He’s also a technologist – which is pleasing, because I agree entirely with Benn on this – our future depends on technology going forward.
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As me and Lucy said earlier – Who?
Sor-ry.
So I got confused between him, Tony Blackburn and later Nigel Benn.
That doesn’t matter
Like Tony Blackburn (
Lucinda) but better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn Read!
Ha.
As Josie said, think the reception he’d get in Waseley would be slightly different…
In my youth, I used to get confused between Tony Benn and Mr. Benn (http://www.outofrange.net/blogarchive/archives/mrbenn.jpg ). Easy mistake to make.
Wish Waseley could afford someone like him to come talk to us. We just PC Partridge and the Conexxions people.
How do you get young people interested in politics?
Tony Benn’s how.