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Hace 3 días · 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.
19 de may. de 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.
Hace 4 días · 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 ...
Hace 1 día · The predictable “events” that might change the narrative are the TV debates. The first TV debate in a British election campaign, in 2010, transformed public opinion.Nick Clegg’s sub-Blairite bipartisan reasonableness came as such a shock to the voters that the Liberal Democrats briefly took the lead in the opinion polls, and they spent the last two weeks of the campaign neck-and-neck ...
Hace 1 día · 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. When Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride dared to wonder, ...
Hace 6 días · A prominent member of the Cabinet, Norman Tebbit, was injured, and his wife Margaret was left paralysed. Thatcher herself escaped assassination by sheer luck. She insisted that the conference open on time the next day and made her speech as planned in defiance of the bombers, a gesture which won widespread approval across the ...
Hace 2 días · 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”.
