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Rejected petition Tony Benn to be given a knighthood.

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Tony Benn should be given a knighthood as he has made an outstanding commitment to Democracy and politics in this country and has given generations of people a real interest in politics, which locally and nationally has a dramatic impact on the quality of our lives.
p.s he also setup the Giro bank

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Date submitted 19 April 2013
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