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Originally Posted by Kizzy
The vilification was unrelenting. When he stood for the deputy leadership in 1981, the Sun led the charge against him. And it found plenty of support from within the Labour party itself.
Benn's biographer, David Powell, described the campaign against Benn as "venomous" and quoted the Labour MP and Benn supporter, Michael Meacher, as saying:
"There was never less than a half-page of vitriol in the press every day, and the source was the right wing of the Labour party."
Really? ..I'd say the treatment was running almost parallel as highlighted here from that article.
I find Benn and Corbyn very similar in their views particularly the importance of truth and justice over grandstanding and spin.
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You seem to believe that if I admire Tony Benn, then by extension, I should admire Corbyn... and I don't. And I never will.
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