Barbara Castle

Politician

1910-10-06 – 2002-05-03

British Labour politician who served in multiple Cabinet roles and was one of the most prominent female politicians in post-war Britain.

Quotes by Barbara Castle

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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