The Benn Diaries: 1940-1990
“Ron Vaughan turned up at 7.30 with all the morning papers. The Guardian had it right ‘Wilson gives Benn’s head to the City’. By the time Josh left for school, there were about fifty journalists, two television units and three or four radio interviewers with microphones standing outside. We had decided not to say anything at all to the press, so when they confronted Josh, he ignored them. One of them shouted, ‘You fucking well answer my questions.’ Josh took no notice so they said, ‘You push off..., you little shit.’ Now Josh, at sixteen, is perfectly capable of exchanging harsh words with anybody of his own age, but when two or three grown men who, in a sense, are symbols of authority, swore at him like that, it really worried him.
Ron walked ahead of me with my bag and Caroline, Stephen and Hilary watched me as I left. I walked out slowly and as I opened the front gate, the television cameras turned, the flashbulbs popped and the mikes were pushed menacingly at me. ‘Do you regard your job as a promotion or demotion?’ ‘What do you think of Mrs Hart?’ and so on.MoreLess
Ron walked ahead of me with my bag and Caroline, Stephen and Hilary watched me as I left. I walked out slowly and as I opened the front gate, the television cameras turned, the flashbulbs popped and the mikes were pushed menacingly at me. ‘Do you regard your job as a promotion or demotion?’ ‘What do you think of Mrs Hart?’ and so on.MoreLess
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