I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. - Tony Benn

Workers now have, through interdependence, enormous negative power to dislocate the system. Workers' control—if it means the power to plan their own work and to hire and fire the immediate plant management just as M.P.s are now hired and fired by the voters—converts that existing negative power into positive and constructive power. It thus creates the basis of common interest with local managers struggling to make a success of the business and to get devolved authority from an over-centralized bureaucratic board of management now perhaps sitting on them from above.

Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

The Prime Minister keeps me on around here because I make him look good.