Barbara Castle Quotes

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• And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to…
• And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
• Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy…
• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and…
• That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very…
• Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
• Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
• You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
• 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 against…
• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to…
• 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, and…
• What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and…

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