Broke Quote 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 the rights…

— Barbara Castle

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

— Barbara Castle

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

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

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

— Barbara Castle

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

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

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

— Barbara Castle

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

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

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

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

— Barbara Castle