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Tony Benn's ultimate instalment of diaries centres on a decade which observed the disintegration of japanese Europe, an exceptional attack at the labour stream at domestic, the autumn of Margaret Thatcher and the tragic warfare within the Gulf. it's a interval which marks the height of Tony Benn's recognition as a super parliamentarian. This ultimate quantity of diaries supplies us perception into an period of outstanding foreign and family political lifestyles making it some of the most very important political writings of our time.
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On the Middle East, I am against the PLO recognition, not because I am anti-Palestinian but because the annihilation of Israel is the PLO objective, and they are associated with terrorism. ’ I was quite content with the summing up, but I said I hoped that in our declaration we would be seen as European socialists looking at the world and not just as socialists looking at Europe; otherwise we would be guilty of the very offence for which we criticised the EEC summit at Venice. ’ I picked up the views of the various parties there, and the conference wasn’t absolutely obsessed about what we did with the Treaty of Rome; the Commission was only mentioned in passing.
Eric Heffer said on the phone how corrupt it was, and this is the form the corruption takes. The saunas, the swimming baths and champagne, everything laid on, is corrupting and you can’t produce reform unless you withdraw from that, challenge it. But when you do, and are serious, you are up against bitter opposition. Monday 16 June I wrote and dispatched a memorandum to the Select Committee on Energy before which I am appearing on Wednesday to give evidence on the Government’s nuclear power programme.
He said it was also a great mistake to send the 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, which has one-third Irish make-up, into Northern Ireland. A third of his constituents in West Lothian were Irish, both Protestant and Catholic, and there was a strong feeling that the British Army was counter-productive; he would like to see the withdrawal of the army. John Fraser [MP for Norwood] believed that reunification was the only objective but the Protestants didn’t want integration. Alex Lyon [MP for York] thought that our civil liberties in Britain were at risk because of the Irish situation and that our approach to law and order was being undermined.