...for their profligacy on expenses by calling on voters not to vote for the major parties.
Is he supporting the Greens do you think?
Is he supporting the Greens do you think?
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UKIP, I expect. He nearly endorsed them in the mid 90s but was won round to Major by a speech on a "multi-speed Europe" or someting.
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Tee hee (response to original post above). Apparently he has been at pains to emphasise that he is NOT condoning a vote for the BNP. Obviously his real aim is to give as much support as he can to UKIP while stopping short of the line where he gets expelled from the Conservative Party. The fact that, according to Nick Robinson on the Today Prog, UKIP MEPs have a similar expense abuse record seems not to deter him.
It is of course colossally irresponsible, as in fact the result of voter apathy and/or a general "protest vote" mentality will be to boost the BNP's vote percentages substantially with the risk of the racist scum winning seats.
By contrast, I hear from my mother, a regular Catholic church-goer, that the RC church is energetically trying to persuade its flock to get off their backsides and VOTE, for anybody as long as it's not the BNP. I look forward to the OTF cascade of praise for the RC church for their stand on this issue.Comment
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The BNP recently had a go at claiming Jesus as a supporter, so that may have tipped them over the edge.
This follows their claiming Churchill. This sucking in of historical figures is a stange mirror of the Tories in their monetarist phase where everyone you thought was a Tory in the past (Churchill, Disraeli) was suddenly deemed not to have been a Tory at all, so that only Salisbury and Judge Jeffries were left. If Disraeli weren't Jewish, I expect the BNP would have claimed him.Comment
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Sounds more like the Mormon trick of baptising dead people who can't object.Comment
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Lord Mauleverer wrote:
I'm happy to start it, if the rumour's correct. Well done Holy Mother Church.I look forward to the OTF cascade of praise for the RC church for their stand on this issue.
"Fucking Samaritans, coming over here, rescuing our travellers."The BNP recently had a go at claiming Jesus as a supporter...Comment
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The actual pitch was more desperate than that, Wyatt:
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I agree-well done RC church, and well done C of E earlier this year for refusing to let BNP membership be viewed as compatible with being a vicar.
Our Unite Against Fascism campus group organising meeting last week was attended by...a revolutionary socialist atheist trade unionist (me); an anarchist; a liberal; a chaplain (C of E, I think...); 2 Muslims who came straight from friday prayers to attend and a gay retired lecturer.
No Tories, Labourites (bit of an endangered species on campus-there was a councillor at the city meeting) or Buddhists but not far from completing our 'diversity of the movement' sticker albumComment
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Can't see the poster too well, but it's presumably the pale-skinned, blue-eyed Jesus rather than the darker Jewish one from the Middle East...The BNP recently had a go at claiming Jesus as a supporter...Comment
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Is Tebbit actually still alive? I had thought he'd died some time in the late 1990s.Comment
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He seems older than he is because he fell out with Thatcher, left the front bench and resigned from parliament. He could quite easily have been in a senior cabinet role till 1997.Comment
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Astonishingly, Cameron has failed to kick Tebbit out of the party. This is of course nothing to do with his attempt to lead the Tories out of the European People's Party (the international centre right group) into coalition with an assortment of Euro-Tebbits.Comment
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I once had tea with Norman Tebbit at the House of Lords.
A charming and very funny man. Aware that he was often playing the gallery as a pantimomie villain to draw the flak from Thatcher.
To prepare for the meeting I read his autobiography- has anyone else on OTF read it? (That is probably the epitome of a thetorical question)
From it I gleaned that his wife Margaret is bi-polar and after a hard day in the House of Commons beating up the Labour Party Norman would often go and cook the evening meal as she was in hospital.Comment
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He wasn't that funny the last time I saw him on TV. He was part of a panel with Gina Yashere to provide funny comments on the news. Poor old Clive Anderson in the chair must have felt like David Gower going into a test match with a bowling attack of Botham, Jackman, Pringle, Hemmings and Ian Greig.Comment
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Lord Mauleverer wrote:
That would be the UKIP, who are against the "EU gravy train", and said they would not take their seats, isn't it?The fact that, according to Nick Robinson on the Today Prog, UKIP MEPs have a similar expense abuse record seems not to deter him.Comment
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I once saw an interview where he said he was against black and white marriage because it created 'mongrels'. The interviewer was Trevor McDonald, who smiled at him as one of the grand old characters of politics, rather than some racist old cunt.Comment
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Tebbit urges that MPs be punished, eh? Following in the noble footsteps of Harvey Proctor, Mark Oaten and others.
"we've been very naughty boys"Comment
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He wasn't the least funny person there, then.He wasn't that funny the last time I saw him on TV. He was part of a panel with Gina Yashere to provide funny comments on the news.Comment
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Worryingly, I have on more than one occasion been likened to the Norman Tebbit Spitting Image puppet.Comment
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I think I'm getting a weird form of dyslexia - I just looked at this thread heading and read, "Tebbit's Tales To Terrorise The Family"...Comment
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Did you know The Express once referred to "Timid Tiptoe Tebbit" for his basically continuing the gradualist approach of James Prior to trade union "reforms"? Priceless.Comment
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