Opinion of Tony Benn

[k-onmmunist]

FF obviously. One of the few decent and honourable politicians left, as well as having great views.

[useful idiot]

Massive FF

[Phony Moderate]

Mega-FF.

[Edu]

Massive FF

[Tetro Kornbluth]

FF obviously. One of the few decent and honourable politicians left, as well as having great views.

Oh discourse. What would we do without you?

[minionofmidas]

FF obviously. One of the few decent and honourable politicians left, as well as having great views.

Oh discourse. What would we do without you?

Not sure I'm following you. You think Tony Benn was a decent and honourable politician right?

(And I accidentally typed "Toby Benn" somehow. Caught that just before I hit post.)

[Tetro Kornbluth]

FF obviously. One of the few decent and honourable politicians left, as well as having great views.

Oh discourse. What would we do without you?

Not sure I'm following you. You think Tony Benn was a decent and honourable politician right?

(And I accidentally typed "Toby Benn" somehow. Caught that just before I hit post.)

I was being a bit obtuse (even by my standards). I was just referring to how common and regular the whole "one of the few decent and politicians left" idea is. I must have seen that exact sentence written a million times about hundreds of different people. As for the underlined "left" romanticizing the past is boring, no?

[minionofmidas]

As for the underlined "left" romanticizing the past is boring, no?

No.

Pointless and intellectually dishonest, yeah. But not boring.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In many respects, perhaps most respects actually, an admirable man. But it's hard to overlook what happened in the 80s and late 70s. Not so much because what he proposed was insane (some of it wasn't, actually. Because he took such an ideological approach to politics, he was able to look at certain things from a different perspective than is the norm for career politicians such as himself; support for manufacturing and saving money from North Sea Oil into a trust fund are the two obvious ones, but there are others) and would have led to Labour becoming a chronically weak party, but because of the mindlessly destructive role his supporters played in Labour's long civil war. I mean, my overall view of him is positive, but no one in politics is a saint.