“Is the Minister aware that he is getting a reputation for being a parsimonious philistine, and that he ought to give an undertaking that any income that library services choose to get from the lending of tapes or whatever else will not be taken away by loss of income support for the local authority from the Exchequer? Would it not be better if all library services of all sorts were declared free, for the benefit of everybody? That would be better than this creeping privatisation and creeping charging in the library service that the Minister seems to be encouraging.”

—  Jeremy Corbyn

Question http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1989/feb/08/public-libraries in the House of Commons (8 February 1989). <br class="br">1980s

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