Someone on the EEN comments page has claimed the late, great Tony Benn as on of our own?
Anyone aware of this? If so, proof!?
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Thread: Tony Benn, Hibs Supporter?
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14-03-2014 11:09 AM #1
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Tony Benn, Hibs Supporter?
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14-03-2014 11:28 AM #3
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It's true he had a season ticket for the East,u would often see him conducting Section 43 into a singsong.
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14-03-2014 11:38 AM #4
His Dad William Wedgwood Benn "served as MP for Leith from 1918 to 1927, following a distinguished war service. He supported the call for Leith to remian independent from Edinburgh in the "Lightning plebiscite" of 1920." taken from the council website.
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14-03-2014 01:45 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-03-2014 01:53 PM #8
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I can't think of anyone I would rather sit next to in a football stadium than Tony Benn. A true legend.
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14-03-2014 01:55 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-03-2014 02:34 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteHIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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14-03-2014 02:41 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-03-2014 02:55 PM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
ooops...i always got those two maverik left wingers mixed up....your right of course, tony was the diaries and tam was the belgrano...better delete my previous post.
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14-03-2014 03:10 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-03-2014 03:52 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I can. Lots and lots of people in fact.
Not a legend for me. Central figure in making and keeping the Labour Party unelectable during Thatcher's time, extending her destructive reign in doing so. Interesting guy from a very privileged background who could afford to see successive Tory governments - because he didn't have to live the consequences of those governments. His pursuit of political purity and defence of Militant meant others paid the price.
Anyway, not a Hibee and not a thread for the main board in my view.
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14-03-2014 04:00 PM #16
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14-03-2014 04:16 PM #17
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[QUOTE=One Day Soon;3931476]I can. Lots and lots of people in fact.
Not a legend for me. Central figure in making and keeping the Labour Party unelectable during Thatcher's time, extending her destructive reign in doing so. Interesting guy from a very privileged background who could afford to see successive Tory governments - because he didn't have to live the consequences of those governments. His pursuit of political purity and defence of Militant meant others paid the price.
Anyway, not a Hibee and not a thread for the main board in my view.[/QUOTE
He wasn't from an overly privileged background in as much as he wasn't from the aristocracy as some have claimed. And Tony Blair made Labour electable and that didn't do much to halt Thatcherism! If the world had more like Benn we'd be better off.
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14-03-2014 04:18 PM #18
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He was Viscount Stansgate, as was his father.
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14-03-2014 04:34 PM #19
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14-03-2014 04:41 PM #20
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14-03-2014 04:46 PM #21
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Anyway surely he was a red?
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14-03-2014 04:50 PM #22
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Sat in a Labour Cabinet that closed twice as many pits than Thatcher ever did.Not something he liked being questioned about when he became a man of the people.
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14-03-2014 05:01 PM #23
Just because he's deid will not alter my opinion - he was a mischievous argumentative auld rogue!
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14-03-2014 06:01 PM #24
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Speaking of famous polititians has anyone heard the Saddam Hussein was a hibee rumour? Genuinely serious too!
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14-03-2014 06:04 PM #25
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14-03-2014 06:21 PM #26
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14-03-2014 06:25 PM #27
Gengis Khan and Alexander the Great were both Hibby's, but I'm not sure about Attila, I think he might have been a Hun.
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14-03-2014 06:41 PM #28
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Last edited by hibsbollah; 14-03-2014 at 06:59 PM.
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14-03-2014 06:59 PM #30
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Apologies, between 64 and 87 labour closed 70% of all pits closed, will have to look a the situation in greater depth before I comment further
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