“I tell the Prime Minister that this is an ill-thought-out enterprise and will not achieve the purposes to which it is put.”

— Tony Benn

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1982/apr/07/falkland-islands#column_993 in the House of Commons (7 April 1982) on the Falklands War
1980s

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