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Originally Posted by JCB
Just an observation......Denis Healey was once a member of the Communist Party......gave a strongly left-wing speech to the Labour Party conference in 1945.......became Secretary of State for Defence......became Chancellor of the Exchequer.......became deputy leader of the Labour Party.......in 2006 he said : " Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War" and "I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer" ...... in 2013 he said : " "I wouldn't object strongly to leaving the EU. The advantages of being members of the union are not obvious. The disadvantages are very obvious. I can see the case for leaving – the case for leaving is stronger than for staying in . "
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That's the whole point...Denis WAS a member of the Communist Party, but his views changed as time went by; most people's do, due to experience, maturity, changing circumstances etc. Even Jeremy Corbyn's friends and colleagues admit that his views are exactly the same as they were when he was a young man; still the same old hard-left zealot. As for Denis's views on nuclear weapons, I was minded to think the same in the flush of post-cold war euphoria, but times have changed and the world's a more dangerous place, due to conflagrations in the Middle East (caused partly by ours and the Yanks' meddling it has to be said) and Putin's territorial ambitions. I wonder if Denis still thinks the same today? Totally agree with him on the EU, though, but what's Jeremy's view on this and will it matter when he's running for office in 2020, as presumably the whole issue will have been settled one way or the other by the electorate?