Tebbit, Lord Norman |
Born
29 March
1931 (Ponders End, London, England) |
Outspoken
former chairman of the
Conservative Party, whose unemployed father famously "did
not riot, he
got on his bike and looked for work". Here's one of his more
famous,
though not wholly memorable, quotes: "The word
'conservative' is used
by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose
views differ
from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive,
guilt-ridden, wet,
pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds
of that
third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties." It must have taken
him hours
to write that. |
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