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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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"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room."
Meeting
"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."
War
"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."
Family
"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
Oil
"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."
Government
"I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won."
War
"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."
Economy
"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."
Power
"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
Man
"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."
War
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