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Blueswordangel · 10-09-2008, 06:44 PM

Financial crisis:
We're all socialists now,
comrade

A quarter of a century ago, in the era of the Labour manifesto that was dubbed (by a member of the Labour shadow cabinet) "the longest suicide note in history", when one wanted to depict the absurdity of the view of the world advanced by Tony Benn and Michael Foot one simply had to say: "They want to nationalise the banks!" People fell about laughing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../09/do0901.xml

10-09-2008, 06:44 PM	#1
Blueswordangel Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: CAMBRIDGE MA USA Posts: 12	Financial crisis: We're all socialists now, comrade Financial crisis: We're all socialists now, comrade A quarter of a century ago, in the era of the Labour manifesto that was dubbed (by a member of the Labour shadow cabinet) "the longest suicide note in history", when one wanted to depict the absurdity of the view of the world advanced by Tony Benn and Michael Foot one simply had to say: "They want to nationalise the banks!" People fell about laughing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../09/do0901.xml