"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."
Tony Benn, born 3 April 1925.
Highly popular leftist British Labour Party politician who was an MP for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. His campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963.
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