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• Dogs make you walk. Politics make you think. Only boredom makes you old.

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• I remember people who’d had a lot of hardship during the war. They’d thought we’d won.

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• And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

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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 of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

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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 and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

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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 to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

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• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

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• And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people’s morale.

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

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• In politics, guts is all.

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• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

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

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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. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

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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 been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in ’79.

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• It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

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• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

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

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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 couldn’t work, and it didn’t work, and it just came to a standstill.

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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 the war, and when we won, that’s what we did.

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

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Birth:	6th October, 1910
Death:	3rd May, 2002
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT was a British Labour Party politician. She was elected to St Pancras Borough Council in 1937, and in 1943 she spoke at the annual Labour Party Conference for the first time. She was a senior administrative officer at the Ministry of Food and an ARP warden during the Blitz. Elected to Parliament in 1945, she rose to become one of the most important Labour Party politicians of the twentieth century. Until her record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody, Barbara Castle held the record as the female MP with the longest continuous service. She is the first, and to date the only, woman to have held the office of First Secretary of State. Castle died in Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, of pneumonia and chronic lung disease.

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