A truly decent man of principle and by God what an orator. Could listen to him talk for days.
I wish more of our politicians were this motivated…seems like the only one motivated and not for the right reasons seems to be farage.
Where is the selflessness, where is the ambition and desire to do right by your fellow country men. Where is the desire to rebuild our nation and to put our best foot forward instead of lining their pockets
A real o g
Tony Benn gave up a life of privilege to serve the UK. I didn’t always agree with his politics, but he was a man of integrity, something lacking in politics in the UK and the world today
We could really use some people like him in the halls of power right now…
Oh it’s so funny ha a type so fin and funny forever gig economy I’d
He was right. I bet he’s spinning in his grave at what his son became
Everybody in the house heard that and thought brilliant lets run down our defence capability 😄
Wow, a powerful statement and an even stronger reminder
This speech is very powerful, and the music playing gives it a unique and inspiring perspective. Does anyone knows the song ?
And there’s not one person like him in parliament today.
I am in utter awe how it is possible to form such eloquent sentences on the spot
Seriously fuck whoever put that soppy music over a great parliamentary speech.
I love the mutual respect between Tony and Heath! It’s really what’s missing, the understanding that people with opposing views/ sides might not be scum
Some meme this, what the hell is going on in this sub?
How far we have fallen! Look. Who we elect now! Farage of all people!
My dad was friends with Tony Benn, worked with him. I remember him coming home telling me what they talked about. I was too young to understand too much but I understood for the past 20 years
I miss Tony Benn he held a lot of dickheads during the past invasion of Iraq accountable.
I remember watching PMQs on a weds and he always turned up and kept them to their evil actions.
I watch Robin Cooke’s resignation speech from time to time and remember the darkness at that time for all those that stood against.
I also go back to Dr David Kelly’s speech on his findings which was also historical, my mum watching deeply retaining all the mps that were for and against the invasion, tears welling up saying “they’re going to do it”.
I thank my lucky star being late teens early 20s at the time my mum who was always well read, deeply invested I world politics and any injustice obscure or shown taught us our history and made sure to make us learn and research not all that is taught isthe real truth .
It’s why I was the weird 19 year old buying all the top rag papers daily to dissect the bs 😂.
She’s a Scot, must be in her blood way into her 80s saying “that’s a bald faced lie” at the hypocrisy.
Watching the twin towers live on big back tv, can only go on my personal emotions of that time , sister going off to Iraq with the RAF with the blessings of my right wing dad but at the dismissal of my pacifist mum.
Was a wild time.
How tf did we let that Dorian gray cottager, elm guest house going, savilles bestie Blair get away with it?
My 19/20 year old self really believed going to protests and trying to scream loud enough and generate social protest through millenials coming of age at the time was doing something 😂
Blair’s still about , floating around like the grim reaper at NATO conference’s and the like
I really don’t think this needs the musical score.
Makes it feel more like a crappy staged Hollywood moment than one of our finer politicians speaking from the heart with true passion.
Watch out Americans…he was a Socialist…heaven forbid.
He made this speech around the time Iraq had invaded Kuwait.
Yeah we should’ve just let Baathist Iraq annex Kuwait instead. Kuwaitis have such fond memories of Baathist rule.
I met him. He signed a book he had written. I explained my grandfather had held him in in great esteem. He was touched.
The speech that got me into politics. Wish something of his caliber was around now. His diaries are phenomenal
Why does he go straight to Arabs and not just bring up Nazi civilian suffering? I’ll tell you why, because this is not a heartfelt outpouring of sympathy, but a bought and paid for piece of anti-western propaganda.
Is that… Jeremy Corben in the back?
I support the sentiments but for God’s sake this isn’t the sub for it. This is a meme sub.
The chintzy music is totally unnecessary
What a speech!
Hipster JC in the background.
What a loss
A few more like him would be very welcome nowadays
A great man.
He is limited by his biases, he presumes the UN charter “we the United Nations strive to protect future generations”.
You think the terrorists who kill their own people feel that way? No they do not. Did Saddam feel that way about the Iraqi people, no he did not.
And it is certainly a question worth asking in hindsight, the Iraqi people, if the war against Saddam was worth it, or if he should have been left in power to continue killing tens of thousands of his own people with poison gas, or wait for him to invade a third foreign country (Iran, Kuwait).
The speaker is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT one must be responsible for the consequences of taking Action, the killing of innocent Iraqis to defeat Saddam.
But equally one must take responsibility for INACTION. By refusing to support action against such a government, you approve of their behavior, or must communicate that it is a preferable suffering than one you cause.
But one can make the same argument in WWII, we killed tens of thousands of German children, the solution is not refusing to take up violence, but accepting that violence is necessary when a greater evil is the alternative to said violence.
The greatest mistake is letting those that don’t care about future generations win every war because you are unwilling to accept the costs.
If a state wants to destroy their children by turning them into jihadi suicide bombers, that’s their choice, and it is incredibly discriminatory to assume they value life as we do.
That’s the difference between seeing it and watching it on social media true passion and conviction
That wasn’t a speech written by a team of other people like nowadays this was a speech done on the spot by a man who had lived through war .
The passion and brilliance of the man is remarkable there won’t be another like him .
He would have made a great prime minister .
One of the last honest politicians in the world who put duty to the people ahead of personal gain.
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He was a decent man.
One of the few real good ones.
Right on everything, including EU membership
God rest his soul.
Amazing, a very tired Corbyn in the back.
A truly decent man of principle and by God what an orator. Could listen to him talk for days.
I wish more of our politicians were this motivated…seems like the only one motivated and not for the right reasons seems to be farage.
Where is the selflessness, where is the ambition and desire to do right by your fellow country men. Where is the desire to rebuild our nation and to put our best foot forward instead of lining their pockets
A real o g
Tony Benn gave up a life of privilege to serve the UK. I didn’t always agree with his politics, but he was a man of integrity, something lacking in politics in the UK and the world today
We could really use some people like him in the halls of power right now…
Oh it’s so funny ha a type so fin and funny forever gig economy I’d
He was right. I bet he’s spinning in his grave at what his son became
Everybody in the house heard that and thought brilliant lets run down our defence capability 😄
Wow, a powerful statement and an even stronger reminder
This speech is very powerful, and the music playing gives it a unique and inspiring perspective. Does anyone knows the song ?
And there’s not one person like him in parliament today.
I am in utter awe how it is possible to form such eloquent sentences on the spot
Seriously fuck whoever put that soppy music over a great parliamentary speech.
I love the mutual respect between Tony and Heath! It’s really what’s missing, the understanding that people with opposing views/ sides might not be scum
Some meme this, what the hell is going on in this sub?
How far we have fallen! Look. Who we elect now! Farage of all people!
My dad was friends with Tony Benn, worked with him. I remember him coming home telling me what they talked about. I was too young to understand too much but I understood for the past 20 years
I miss Tony Benn he held a lot of dickheads during the past invasion of Iraq accountable.
I remember watching PMQs on a weds and he always turned up and kept them to their evil actions.
I watch Robin Cooke’s resignation speech from time to time and remember the darkness at that time for all those that stood against.
I also go back to Dr David Kelly’s speech on his findings which was also historical, my mum watching deeply retaining all the mps that were for and against the invasion, tears welling up saying “they’re going to do it”.
I thank my lucky star being late teens early 20s at the time my mum who was always well read, deeply invested I world politics and any injustice obscure or shown taught us our history and made sure to make us learn and research not all that is taught isthe real truth .
It’s why I was the weird 19 year old buying all the top rag papers daily to dissect the bs 😂.
She’s a Scot, must be in her blood way into her 80s saying “that’s a bald faced lie” at the hypocrisy.
Watching the twin towers live on big back tv, can only go on my personal emotions of that time , sister going off to Iraq with the RAF with the blessings of my right wing dad but at the dismissal of my pacifist mum.
Was a wild time.
How tf did we let that Dorian gray cottager, elm guest house going, savilles bestie Blair get away with it?
My 19/20 year old self really believed going to protests and trying to scream loud enough and generate social protest through millenials coming of age at the time was doing something 😂
Blair’s still about , floating around like the grim reaper at NATO conference’s and the like
I really don’t think this needs the musical score.
Makes it feel more like a crappy staged Hollywood moment than one of our finer politicians speaking from the heart with true passion.
Watch out Americans…he was a Socialist…heaven forbid.
He made this speech around the time Iraq had invaded Kuwait.
Yeah we should’ve just let Baathist Iraq annex Kuwait instead. Kuwaitis have such fond memories of Baathist rule.
I met him. He signed a book he had written. I explained my grandfather had held him in in great esteem. He was touched.
The speech that got me into politics. Wish something of his caliber was around now. His diaries are phenomenal
Why does he go straight to Arabs and not just bring up Nazi civilian suffering? I’ll tell you why, because this is not a heartfelt outpouring of sympathy, but a bought and paid for piece of anti-western propaganda.
Is that… Jeremy Corben in the back?
I support the sentiments but for God’s sake this isn’t the sub for it. This is a meme sub.
The chintzy music is totally unnecessary
What a speech!
Hipster JC in the background.
What a loss
A few more like him would be very welcome nowadays
A great man.
He is limited by his biases, he presumes the UN charter “we the United Nations strive to protect future generations”.
You think the terrorists who kill their own people feel that way? No they do not. Did Saddam feel that way about the Iraqi people, no he did not.
And it is certainly a question worth asking in hindsight, the Iraqi people, if the war against Saddam was worth it, or if he should have been left in power to continue killing tens of thousands of his own people with poison gas, or wait for him to invade a third foreign country (Iran, Kuwait).
The speaker is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT one must be responsible for the consequences of taking Action, the killing of innocent Iraqis to defeat Saddam.
But equally one must take responsibility for INACTION. By refusing to support action against such a government, you approve of their behavior, or must communicate that it is a preferable suffering than one you cause.
But one can make the same argument in WWII, we killed tens of thousands of German children, the solution is not refusing to take up violence, but accepting that violence is necessary when a greater evil is the alternative to said violence.
The greatest mistake is letting those that don’t care about future generations win every war because you are unwilling to accept the costs.
If a state wants to destroy their children by turning them into jihadi suicide bombers, that’s their choice, and it is incredibly discriminatory to assume they value life as we do.
That’s the difference between seeing it and watching it on social media true passion and conviction
That wasn’t a speech written by a team of other people like nowadays this was a speech done on the spot by a man who had lived through war .
The passion and brilliance of the man is remarkable there won’t be another like him .
He would have made a great prime minister .
One of the last honest politicians in the world who put duty to the people ahead of personal gain.
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