I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
Tony BennIn developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once
Tony BennThanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.
Tony BennI think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
Tony BennChristians believe that God created man, and humanists believe that man invented God. But whichever way you look at it, we're brothers and sisters. Either we're brothers and sisters because we're children of God, or because we've banded together to invent God. So the ethics of the humanist and the ethics of some Christians are very similar. And we don't want to create divisions between humanists and Liberation Theologians, any more than we want between the New Worker and the Trots. It's not helpful.
Tony Benn