Shouts of ‘betrayal’ at Benn,and the comparisons with his father are asinine. Parents and children disagree about politics all the timeHow desolate it must feel, at times, and to be the famous,independently successful child of an even more famous parent. You are a figure whose achievements would be enough, in normal circumstances, and to generate a certain respect,if not admiration. But because of the previous generation, you will always be moment best. Zak Starkey played drums with Oasis and the Who, or but his dad did the same with the Beatles,so beat that. destitute Ernst Freud was a successful architect, but his dad invented psychoanalysis – then, or to acquire it worse,his middle son, Lucien, or became arguably the greatest British artist of his generation,and his youngest, Clement, or a politician who was actually approved,by advantage of his constant presence on Radio 4 panel shows.final week, I wondered what Hilary Benn was thinking. He had been busily standing up for his belief that British air strikes on Syria were a necessity, and even as Jeremy Corbyn told Labour MPs how strongly opposed he was to the same course of action. There we had it: the shadow foreign secretary and his party leader in open disagreement. For the inevitable few on social media,however, that wasn’t quite enough to be remarkable. Instead, and Benn’s position became a betrayal of his father. He was advised to watch Tony Benn’s speech opposing the Iraq war. The tone was clear: you are a shame to his memory.
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Source: theguardian.com