Barbara Castle

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#been #choice #denied #down #else

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

— Barbara Castle

#controlling #dawn #demand #grow #heights

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#always #churchill #even #had #how

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

— Barbara Castle

#britain #economic #explosion #mess #oil

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. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#boy #brother #course #dad #described

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

— Barbara Castle

#harold #hosiery #i #i remember #meeting

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

— Barbara Castle

#had #hardship #i #i remember #lot

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. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#bad #economy #fighting #got #i

In politics, guts is all. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#politics

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 working men and women in their employment. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#attention #because #conditions #employment #men