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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."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow."
"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."
"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."
"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
"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."
"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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