tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7108858704911164970.post5657800947044106562..comments2024-03-22T00:31:54.787-07:00Comments on Cambrian Dissenters: Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Tony Benn And Bob Crow - A Rose Between Two ThornsDaniel Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03729641058702993109noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7108858704911164970.post-56483210191837248422014-03-20T05:47:18.808-07:002014-03-20T05:47:18.808-07:00Despite his left wing rhetoric, Benn could not ide...Despite his left wing rhetoric, Benn could not identify with working people, in fact like the current leadership of all the parties, he couldn't identify with anyone outside of his closed circle of like minded friends.<br /><br />I think your Dad was being generous, Benn's economic policy was straight out of "Das Kapital".<br /><br />ps I think I was in Burford a few years back when touring traditional England with some American friends.Daniel Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729641058702993109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7108858704911164970.post-49182771418211795742014-03-19T15:00:42.623-07:002014-03-19T15:00:42.623-07:00I once met Benn at the annual Levellers meeting in...I once met Benn at the annual Levellers meeting in Burford, in 2001. He was standing on his own just outside the church, the one with the holes in the walls where Thompson, Perkins and Church were shot by Cromwells men. I said hello but he ignored me. My Dad thought he was a few bricks shy of a load, economically.<br /><br />SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7108858704911164970.post-79593291747740588642014-03-19T08:12:41.248-07:002014-03-19T08:12:41.248-07:00.....could have been the prototype.....could have been the prototypeDaniel Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729641058702993109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7108858704911164970.post-83945715778890511502014-03-19T06:29:48.603-07:002014-03-19T06:29:48.603-07:00Thanks for your amusing anecdote. Your encounter w...Thanks for your amusing anecdote. Your encounter with the multi-millionaire champion of the working class was the closest he'd ever been to a worker in his life. <br /><br />It was certainly the closest he'd been to a tool box - it is highly likely he would not have a clue what it was. <br /><br />Looking at the leaders of the working class today, Wedgewood Benn could have the prototype.Daniel Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729641058702993109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7108858704911164970.post-45623627033545721782014-03-18T17:12:57.191-07:002014-03-18T17:12:57.191-07:00How I missed my 15 seconds of fame by a mere 2 inc...How I missed my 15 seconds of fame by a mere 2 inches<br /><br />At some time during the Callaghan administration, probably during 1978, I was sent to 10 Downing Street, to perform a service call on a piece of equipment. Arriving at the end of the street, I was directed by the police to park my van in Downing Street, directly opposite number 10.<br />After doing that I asked one of the coppers outside the door, where the service entrance was, ( I was well trained in those days as you can tell). Anyhow, he directed me straight to the front door.<br />As I approached the door it magically opened with neither a bell or a knock, (well at least somebody was on their toes that morning). After a cursory inspection of my tool box, I was taken to where the faulty piece of equipment was...which turned out to be right outside the Cabinet Room<br /><br />After completing my work, I was on my way out. As I approached the door, the footman/doorman/ attendant, (whatever you want to call him), went to open the door which caused me to step to the side of the door, and proceeded to then turn back and on through the doorway. Now it happened that I was carrying a metal tool box, which together with all the tools weighed between 60 - 70 lbs. Now the action of me turning aside and then back through the doorway, caused the toolbox to swing away from me. Well just at that moment, who should be entering number 10 on his way to a Cabinet meeting, but that champion of the oppressed, that friend of the working man, Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn. With tourist cameras flashing (from the other side of the street), my toolbox missed Tony's kneecap by less than 2 inches. So close yet so far ;)<br /><br />I should add, that true to expectations, that friend of the working man, looked straight through me as if I didn't exist, even though he had to have realized that I very nearly did to him what the IRA of the time was busy doing to less fortunate mortals, on a regular basis.<br /><br />So somewhere, some unknown tourist has a photograph of a scruffy oik's encounter with one of the great and the good...I wander if they realized the lost significance of that moment <br /><br /><br /><br />Just Another Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08281802460315546358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7108858704911164970.post-43725891985387193102014-03-18T05:45:41.774-07:002014-03-18T05:45:41.774-07:00The political class and their media whores are no ...The political class and their media whores are no longer differentiated by party affiliation. They are in agreement on the big issues of the day, there is no difference between them.<br /><br />Benn, Crow and their ilk are part of the political establishment and will be treated with leniency by the media. Clarissa however, was not.Daniel Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729641058702993109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7108858704911164970.post-52823276930241498382014-03-18T03:48:35.230-07:002014-03-18T03:48:35.230-07:00Benn, in his diaries, described Mao, the world'...Benn, in his diaries, described Mao, the world's biggest mass murderer, as one of the greatest men of the last century.<br />Why do the left get a free pass on such outrageous statements?parisclaimshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01157447487383676735noreply@blogger.com