Norman Tebbit
Norman Tebbit
Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit CH PC, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancasterand Chairman of the Conservative Party. He was a member of parliamentfrom 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Eppingand Chingford...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth29 March 1931
Norman Tebbit quotes about
party responsibility class
I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.
ideas becoming classic
[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.
views paper november
Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.
running england bowling
The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.
sunset home views
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.
dad unemployment conservative
My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work
views political brain
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
parliament direct mislead
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
father found unemployed
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.
blow two bombs
I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.
successful envy entrepreneur
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.
issues kingdoms way
The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.
men weak-man stupidity
He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.
destruction britain great-britain
The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain.