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19 mag 2024 · In 1981, Margaret Thatcher’s Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit infamously used an analogy about his father being out of work in the 30s, and instead of rioting, he got on his bike and looked for work. This became interpreted popularly as telling the unemployed to ‘get on their bike’ to find a job.
3 giorni fa · Norman Tebbit, appearing as a leather-clad skinhead loyal to Thatcher, referring to her as "Leader" and often beating up other politicians. Michael Heseltine, growing more manic with every series (and wearing a flak jacket as Defence Secretary). Leon Brittan, constantly fawning towards Thatcher and often seen eating.
25 mag 2024 · In the 1980s, Norman Tebbit declared his unemployed father had “got on his bike and looked for work”. These days, such an utterance would probably be regarded as a hate crime against the bone idle.
24 mag 2024 · Redwood’s cause did go on to attract a handful of serious players, including Norman Tebbit and Iain Duncan Smith, one of the more highly regarded of the new intake of MPs, but it was the campaign launch that shaped much of the coverage that was to come.
23 mag 2024 · Will the Tories topple in the next election? Norman Tebbit names the men who brought Margaret Thatcher's government down. The story of the fall from office of Margaret Thatcher is told in dispassionate detail by Charles Moore in Herself Alone, the third volume of his masterful official biography, just out in paperback.
25 mag 2024 · Over to a question on lowering the voting age, something Sir Keir Starmer has previously spoken supportively about and was included in the Labour party's manifesto in both 2015 and 2017. When pressed on this specific point, the Labour leader says: "Yes, I want to see 16 and 17 year olds voting".
3 giorni fa · Following the Brixton riot in West London in April 1981, employment secretary Norman Tebbit, responding to a suggestion that rioting was caused by unemployment, observed that the unemployment of the 1930s was far worse than that of the 1980s—and that his father's generation never reacted by rioting.
