Tony Benn Quote

The [pay] policy is principally designed to hold down wages rather than to check inflation. Inflation is being used as an excuse to destroy free trade union bargaining.


Speech in the House of Commons (Hansard, 7 November 1973, Col. 1015).


The [pay] policy is principally designed to hold down wages rather than to check inflation. Inflation is being used as an excuse to destroy free...

The [pay] policy is principally designed to hold down wages rather than to check inflation. Inflation is being used as an excuse to destroy free...

The [pay] policy is principally designed to hold down wages rather than to check inflation. Inflation is being used as an excuse to destroy free...

The [pay] policy is principally designed to hold down wages rather than to check inflation. Inflation is being used as an excuse to destroy free...