What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
“AND i WAS FED UP WitH NOt HAViNG (PiNK POlKA DOT) FUllY FASHiONED GlAMOUR StOlKiNGS!” — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war,… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service. — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university,… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work,… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property. — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
