Reply to: RIP Tony Benn

[MarillionFan]

What a tugger, you would never have said that had he been alive.

you would never have said it had YOU been alive

You homo.

[Ticktock]

What a tugger, you would never have said that had he been alive.

you would never have said it had YOU been alive

I took it to be a simple joke about Mr. Ben... I'm guessing there's a loud "whooshing" sound now.

[EternalOptimist]

Definitely a paedo in my opinion. Look at the evidence.

Suit. Bowler hat. Getting kitted out in different costumes before asking children to go on adventures. Was the mysterious shopkeeper a union leader???

What a tugger, you would never have said that had he been alive.

you would never have said it had YOU been alive

[MarillionFan]

Definitely a paedo in my opinion. Look at the evidence.

Suit. Bowler hat. Getting kitted out in different costumes before asking children to go on adventures. Was the mysterious shopkeeper a union leader???

[Gittins Gal]

Didn't agree with his politics but a decent man of principle.

It was also his tenacity that saw the whole Concorde project come to fruition.

[minestrone]

I watched a program many years ago which listed some of the projects the Ministry of Technology was engaged In when he headed it up, complete nonsense mostly and giant money pits.

I am sure he was a lovely man to talk to about begonias but his political ideas were complete fruitloopery.

[EternalOptimist]

a giant amongst pygmies

[Old Greg]

The Sun declares Britain safe as 88 year-old peace campaigner dies

[Sysman]

Aye, RIP.

I didn't agree with much of his politics, but he was an honourable chap & no mistake.

There are very few you could say that about these days.

WZS

[Flashman]

[VectraMan]

Was he still alive? I guess he must have been.

Definitely one of the more honest ones.

[Paddy]

"... the pressure brought to bear in industrial disputes by the unions is minuscule. This power was revealed even more clearly in 1976 when the IMF secured cuts in our public expenditure. [...] These [four] lessons led me to the conclusion that the UK is only superficially governed by MPs and the voters who elect them. Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is, and some new Chartist agitation might be born and might quickly gather momentum.”

Tony Benn

[MicrosoftBob]

All good.
Now we need a third one to make a hat-rick. Who's it going to be?

Scargill? Owen Jones? Gordon Brown?

Place your bets please..

Owen Jones, because he's got a slim chance of being a future Labour PM and would love the grim reaper to visit that smug git

[Doggy Styles]

A rare principled politician.

I wouldn't want him anywhere near the levers of power, even Harold Wilson thought he was unhinged, but otherwise it was good to have had him around.

[Andy Hallett]

Although he was a little left wing for me he was certainly a great man.

Was lucky enough to meet him a couple of times. Very charming and likeable.

RIP.