The Guardian has an article commemorating the eightieth birthday of Labour MP Dennis Skinner, nicknamed ‘The Beast of Bolsover’. Skinner is a gift to A2 Politics students as his consistent old Labour attitudes have made him an opponent of everything Tory for the last forty years. In addition he has clashed with the New Labour grouping in the Commons over the absence of genuine socialism in their plans. The Comments are worth a look too, as are the quotes