I've just watch Tony Benn on Hard Talk on the BBC news channel (4.30 am) and I have to say the more I hear him the more I admire the man, since he left front line politics. Durring is time in parliament I agreed very little with what he stood fare, in fact I probably thought the same about him as members of the Labour Party thought about MaggieThatcher. I have now heard him interviewed a number of times since he left front line politics 8 years ago, and now he is a free bird as to say, he does talk lot of sense, although I will never agree with his political ethos. His main points were that we as a county don't rule our own destiny, our destiny which is covered by a) the purse b) the sword c) I can't just remember the exact word he used but I'll explain. The purse is ruled by the IMF and foreign bankers, I agree, The sword is ruled my the USA, I agree, and lastley we are no longer ruled by Westminster, but by a bunch of unelected faceless Brussels bureaucrats who no one voted for and can't get rid of and he sited Peter Mandleson, and I agree with that too.
He was also against ID cards the 42 day detention as a breeche of cival liberties seems we agree on a lot of things
