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20 quotes by Barbara Castle

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn PC, GCOT (née Betts, 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons, until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989. One of...
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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... →

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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.

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In politics, guts is all.

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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.... →

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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of... →

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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

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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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You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

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