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

Barbara Castle, British Politician

Nationalization, Property

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

Barbara Castle, British Politician

Nationalization, Property

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

"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."

"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."

"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."

"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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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