The person named in the title of this piece also carried the name, Mr Anthony Wedgwood-Benn,
generally known to the populace at large as “Tony Benn.”
Mr Benn as he preferred to be known, has died at the very respectable
age of 88 after a lifetime of left-wing campaigning.
Just like the late Bob Crowe, Benn, or more properly his memory, has
been the recipient of numerous jolly nice plaudits along the lines of “I often
disagreed with him but he was a doughty opponent etc., etc. drivel, drivel.”
I found the noble Viscount a profoundly irritating specimen; as far as
I am concerned his one saving grace – he was after all a traitor to his class –
was his happy tobacco habit. Indeed I am
surprised that his pipe and its attendant smoke have not been airbrushed from
the numerous pictures shown today.
In closing I must concede that listening to his rather smug voice,
however boring the content, was a far less unpleasant experience than listening
to the aggressive and ugly tones of the late Mr Crowe who was a true trade-unionist
in the grand Luddite tradition.
Until the next time
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