Tony Benn | Labour Party | Political Struggle |1981 

Here's a great truth: far left economic policy makes the common man's life worse.

Same, brother, same. God bless.

Great man.

David Owen was right more often than people think, but less often than he does.

Yes

guess why

What on earth for? He was an eccentric demagogue, full of moral vanity and false piousness, whose stupidity condemned millions of working class people to years of Thatcher.

@@th8257 Bollocks coming from a Tories

T H Tony Benn actually gave up a Peerage & so easy could have been part of the Land & Gentry that have been pulling the strings behind the scenes:-(

@@amberpuga7322 no, coming from a labour voter who lived through the 80s and desperately wanted a labour government, but saw labour wrecked by Tony Benn. People like you need to grow the f*ck up. Politics isn't a hobby.

@@jonathanhadley2555 i know all about his background. What's that got to do with anything? He was also a millionaire who fiddles his will to avoid tax. He hopelessly out of touch, and a terrible hypocrite. As someone who was around in those days, I can assure that most of the working class thought he was a clueless upper class eccentric

so sad to watch this. These are the liberal cucks responsible for giving our country up to the alien invaders.

James Dowds I think by liberal cucks he was referring to the centre-left or the "right of the Labour party" who eventually won the war and allowed Labour to become more right wing than the Liberals. We never got a leader who fought for redistribution of wealth. John Smith died before he could wipe the floor with Major, then someone from your section of the spectrum won the leadership and therefore the country for 13 years. 38 years of neoliberalism has gotten us here. And if anyone doesn't like it, join your local Labour party and participate

"alien invaders." their human beings you racist fuck

We have one, he's called Jeremy Corbyn.

@@whatamalike , Jeremy corbyn cannot connect with British working class peoples concerns on immigration and love of country

No it’s not. It’s Llew Gardener.

Great for Margaret Thatcher

@@th8257 Gang of 4 split the. Labour Vote!

Corbyn now supports staying in the European union, what a kick in the teeth to labour leave voters

@@thethirdman2135 no wonder labour lost to the tories

@Sultan King yea that sounds like nonsense

Patricia et Colin Clegg two greats and I say that as conservative

why christopher hitchens

I love both Benn and Hitchens. Was Hitchens in this video ?

triciacol Agreed totally.

Hitchens said he had differences with Benn, he never expanded on it, I wonder what they were.

OMG, you're a fucking idiot.

Let's get together - Canned Heat, 60s hippie track well, late 60s

You got smoked in Dec 2019 mate. The working class abandoned the Labour Party in droves. Shove that working class democracy up your A.

@@bongsquadronmusic9335 Working class have no love for the Tories either. By & large we don't vote, and some just went Tory for Brexit. Won't be easy to rebuild trust, but I think before you act triumphant you should realise the working class think your side are a bunch of pricks too.

And yet the working class were amongst the groups of people who disliked Benn most, just as they dislike Corbyn now. Benn's followers were an unrepresentative slice of labour party members, most of whom were out of touch middle class hobbyists, who had no understanding of the working class. It's no coincidence that Corbyn was a disciple of Benn.

@Bessie Hillum fully agree. Middle class champagne socialists & their rainbow worldview destroyed UK

In the area that I grew up in people didn't like being told what to do or what to think, especially by those in a position of power and it's only natural that those in working class jobs who have had to deal with a boss dictating much of their life aren't overly pleased with authority. Now you have young people, students and graduates (many of whom end up in the managerial class themselves) dictating to those who never had such opportunities how they should think and what they should do, often making mass generalisations based on age. Of course people are going to vote against this, I'm a young graduate myself but I constantly find myself frustrated with the lack of awareness from my peers on how their actions are turning people against Labour.

lol he kept Labour out of power for years.

thought it looked like him lol!

Tony Blair?? Or Tony Benn?

@@th8257 Good to see some people still awake 👍

And what did you do?

@@KimPhilby203 I am an Scandinavian social democrat

Cobblers

Really

a wally in the end

Neil Kinnock

Outside of some of the labour party members, most people really didn't like Benn

Par for the course.

michael crick, the leading militant scholar, and someone completely opposed to labour, stated that momentum are nothing like militant in their tactics. they're simply one of the sections within labour, such as the soft left tribune group or Progress on the right. please reply.

@@jbmuggins8815 I didn't mention Momentum. What I said is that the tactics described by Healey in the video are now the political mainstream.

@@ian_b sigh, perhaps you could elaborate

@Bessie Hillum the faction providing the ideas to the leader of the party, hence why Labour will continue to do terribly

"The tactics of Militant described by Healey are now the mainstream, sadly." What utter tripe!

Denis Healey described Tony Benn as the living definition of what Karl Marx wrote when he discussed "feudal socialists" (upper class socialists) "Half lamentation, half lampoon; half an echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart’s core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter."

Perfectly put !