Barbara Castle People Quotations

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.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

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.

We were not putting the wages or the money on investment into the industries to which our mass of people would want to turn, and the money was going.