Ali G Interviews Tony Benn
From the 11 O'Clock Show, Channel 4.
Ali G: Wicked! I is here with none other than Tony Benn. He been in
the political game for many, many years. So nobody know it as he does,
and he is going to explain what the socialism is and what all the left
stuff is going on. What is socialism, Tony?
Tony Benn: Socialism is about democracy...
Ali G: So why do they call it the welfare state? Is it because it is
well fair?
Benn: Well, the welfare state means that you've got a national
insurance.
Ali G: But unemployment is wicked because you get money for doin'
nothing...
Benn: What do you mean? This idea that you're unemployed because
you're lazy is rubbish.
Ali G: Me ain't saying that it's cause you lazy, me saying you wanna
chill, whatever, y'know?
Benn: What do you mean "you want to chill"?
Ali G: You want to relax... So do you think young monthers should get
welfare?
Benn: Well, of course.
Ali G: But does the welfare not just encourage young girls to go out
and get jiggy with Mr Biggy, get a pizza in the oven...
Benn: Well, if you think girls get pregnant 'cause they think they'll
get benefit...
Ali G: For real! For real! They is girls in my estate, they is 16, 17,
they already got one kid and they see something nice in the shops and
they think: "Is me gonna get a job or is me gonna get welfare then me
can sit on me batty and watch Vanessa, whatever?"
Benn: You're living in a world where everyone is just so greedy...
that there's no hope of building a better society and that's why in a
mess.
Ali G: So what is the point of a strike?
Benn: A strike is: "unless you give us decent conditions, we won't
work for you."
Ali G: So do you not think that people strike just 'cause they is lazy
and wanna chill for a day or so?
Benn: If I accepted your view of human nature, I think I would become
a gangster.
Ali G: For real! Is calling a strike not a bit like calling a sickie.
Like you had a really banging weekend, you ring up, you say you is
going to have a strike...
Benn: Oh blimey, if you think it's like a hangover...
Ali G: Aye. But everyone is going on about the right to work, what
about the right not to work?
Benn: Well, that's different, you want to work or you wouldn't be
here.
Ali G: No! Me want to work when me want to, but most of the time me
want to chill, me want to hang with me bitches, me just want to relax.
Benn: You do treat woman with a great deal of disrespect. You're
calling them animals. You've got no time for people, you think they're
lazy, greedy, don't want to work, you call women bitches and then
you're asking me about a society that's happy! A society somebody
will shoot you one day because you treat them like an animal...
Ali G: Ok, me just want to say thank you Tony Benn.
Benn: I've enjoyed it.
Ali G: Maximum respect going out to my main man Tony Benn. Aye. Keep
it real!
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