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Barbara Castle

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[Wikipedia] Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, Baroness Castle was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history. Regarded as one of the most significant Labour Party politicians, Castle dev

Quotes by Barbara Castle

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for…

After

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“AND i WAS FED UP WitH NOt HAViNG (PiNK POlKA DOT) FUllY FASHiONED GlAMOUR StOlKiNGS!”

Polka Dot

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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy…

Against

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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after…

After

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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Drove

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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had…

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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…

Appeal

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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

Fought

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Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it…

Affecting

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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

Broke

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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects…

Another

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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided.…

Degrading

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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

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