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5 giorni fa · 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.
2 giorni fa · Norman Tebbit, Secretary for Trade and Industry throughout the strike called Dugher’s request, ‘plain absurd. Next they’ll want an apology for freeing the Falklands.’ I don’t think there should be any surprise that the Tories considered using the army – Thatcher’s antipathy toward the miners and the leader of the ...
23 ore fa · He received no reply. The book is also full of letters designed to appeal to a reader’s sense of the ridiculous. There is one about “a vulgar sculpture” called The Messenger which appeared outside Plymouth’s Theatre Royal in 2019 and reminded Ewen of “someone having difficulty going to the loo”.
1 giorno fa · Pilots formerly flying piston-engine aircraft often described the Meteor as being exciting to fly. British politician Norman Tebbit stated of his experience flying the Meteor in the RAF: "Get airborne, up with the wheels, hold it low until you were about 380 knots, pull it up and she would go up, well we thought then, like a rocket".
23 ore fa · The Man Who Would Be Blobby. John Redwood has announced that he won’t be standing in the general election, so here’s an extract from Alwyn Turner’s A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s. It’s 1995, a long-running Conservative government is exhausted and riven by splits. With rumours of a leadership challenge, the prime minister John ...
2 giorni fa · Norman Tebbit. Is eventual Irish unification now inevitable? Jane Shilling. The unstoppable march of mushrooms will remake our world. Tim Stanley. This is the best thing Rishi has ever done.
4 giorni fa · Secretary of State for Employment Norman Tebbit lambasted the GLC as "Labour-dominated, high-spending and at odds with the government's view of the world"; Livingstone commented that there was "a huge gulf between the cultural values of the GLC Labour group and everything that Mrs Thatcher considered right and proper."
