BBC News - Labour Stalwart Tony Benn Dies at 88

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Link: BBC News - Labour stalwart Tony Benn dies at 88

[laserblazer]

That's a shame. He was a larger than life character who was passionate about his politics.

[SteveT]

An incredibly wise, knowledgeable and generous man. I attended a lecture followed by a Question and Answer session he gave a couple of years ago. He said that every political decision he ever made was a moral one ....... pity so many career politicians don't have the same approach. He'll be sorely missed!

[witch]

They always say it - but we really won't see his like again. He really believed in what he was saying, and lived it too.

[rich_tech]

a principled man and very moral based in his views, listening to some of his stuff today, you cant fault it either, needs more like him in politics.

[Trapper]

Silly old buffer, gave legitimacy to the militant tendency and kept Labour out of power for a generation.

 

However his morals and ideals are now very much of the mainstream - nationalisation of large public structures, unilateralism etc. I feel he would be an excellent Labour leader for the early 21st century, and it is a shame he was born a couple of generations too early.