I was not at all surprised to see an article on Labourlist, by Luke Akehurst, rehashing many of the old arguments about “the damage” that Tony Benn allegedly did to the Labour Party. Akehurst presented a “charge sheet” against Benn (and, by implication at least, against Bennites). Every point on his “charge sheet” is – […]
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I am still a Bennite
Mar 16th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.I am a Bennite. I think I became one in 1977 or 1978, aged 19 or 20, still a student, when we called him Wedgie. And I still describe myself as a Bennite today. Becoming a Bennite, though it’s hard to say it without a smile, was more about policies than personality, just as Benn […]
