The Wardman Wire

From this week’s Normblog profile of Harry Barnes, a football loving ex-Labour MP from slightly North of me.

What is your favourite piece of political wisdom?
> ‘Democratic Socialism… is based on the conviction that free men can use free institutions to solve the social and economic problems of the day, if they are given a chance to do so.’ From Nye Bevan’s In Place Of Fear. His terminology was also meant to cover women.

If you could effect one major policy change in the governing of your country, what would it be?
> To limit the use of private transport to emergency services, with public transport being publicly owned and freely available, whilst planning for the huge economic and social consequences which would follow.

What would you do with the UN?
> Restructure it to run world-wide military and financial controls.

What do you consider to be the main threat to the future peace and security of the world?
> A wide range of totalitarian dogmas.

I’m speechless. And these answers were adjacent.

We have a provisional arrangement for a pie and a pint at some random time in the future. I shall ask him to explain between the second and third pints; MY second and third pints.

That is, assuming a continued absence of tee-totalitarian dogmas implemented in pubs in the Peak District.

Hat tip: Freeborn John.