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Norman Tebbit Biography

Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH, PC (born 29 March 1931) is a British politician and life peer. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment (1981–83), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1983–85), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1985–87) and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1985–87). He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping (1970–74) and Chingford (1974–92).

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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Direct, Mislead, Parliament, Told, Untruth

I've never bashed a union in my life.

Bashed, Life, Union, Unions

If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.

Back, Community, Countries, Country, Thoroughly, Wish

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

Art, Literature, Muslim, Real, Science, Technology

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

Littles, Mislead, People, Thinking, Though

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

30S, Father, Found, Grew Up, Looked, Looking

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.

Home, Insufferable, Portmanteau, Sunset, Views

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

Becoming, Chris, Classic, Failure, Ideas, Patten

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

John, Men, Stupidity, Weak, Weak Man

Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

Art, Grammar, Home, Homes, Punishment, Reaping

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

Bowling, England, Like, Rash, Running, Stumps

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Eugenics, Intellectuals, Political, Safe, Views

We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.

Culture, Disdain, Entrepreneur, Envy, Successful, Suspicion

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

Bbc, Biased, Britain, Destruction, Great Britain

Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.

Boredom, Contest, Like, Personality, Polls, Sleep