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  Norman Tebbit Biography
Norman Tebbit has been described as the Chingford skinhead, a biker and on one occasion as a 'semi house-trained pole cat'.
Norman is a sort of enforcer clown to Margaret, a keen follower if a tad buffoonish on occasions.
Always on butting terms with controversy Norman suggesting bringing in the 'cricket test' for ethnic minorities suggesting that people from ethnic minorities should not be considered truly British until they supported the England cricket team, as opposed to the country of their or their ancestors' birth.
www.fandmpublications.co.uk /pages/normantebbitbiography1.htm   (386 words)

  
  New Statesman - The New Statesman Interview - Norman Tebbit
Tebbit reels off a few names of politicians so obscure that even their mothers might have trouble placing them, and adds: "I do think it was an error to drop [John] Redwood." Of Michael Portillo, there is no mention.
Tebbit's views on gay lifestyles are so uncompromising that one wonders quite what in his past life - a bleak upbringing by his "on yer bike" father, Len, a former pawnbroker; a stint in the RAF; a career as a civilian pilot - might have installed such a rigid mindset.
It is clear that Tebbit, possibly prompted in part by his recent glimpse of his own mortality, broods privately on his regret that he did not stand as leader in 1990.
www.newstatesman.com /200006050013   (1726 words)

  
 Norman Tebbit - Definition, explanation
Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, PC (born March 29, 1931), is a right-wing British Conservative politician and former MP for Chingford.
He is also known for originating the "cricket test", also known as the "Tebbit test", where he suggested that people from ethnic minorities in Britain should not be considered truly British until they supported the England cricket team, as opposed to the country of their or their ancestors' birth.
Tebbit is still a highly influential figure in the Conservative party, and a vice-president of the Conservative Way Forward group.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/no/norman_tebbit.php   (456 words)

  
 Norman Tebbit
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 The Tebbit test is just not cricket | Special reports | The Observer
According to Lord Tebbit, you'll recall, we could only be classed as British if we cheered England during a cricket match and, extending his theory, Britain in every other sport.
Norman isn't scared by this fact as he is with his fellow Indian brothers, united by their support and love for their country.
This is followed by a few hundred of the crowd mocking the events of 11 September by extending their arms into the shape of an airplane and then mimicking the noise of a plane dive-bombing.
observer.guardian.co.uk /race/story/0,11255,605344,00.html   (729 words)

  
 Norman Tebbit at AllExperts
Tebbit had previously likened Prior's conciliatory approach to the trade unions in a speech as 'the morality of Pétain and Laval'.
Tebbit introduced the Employment Act 1982 which raised the level of compensation for those unfairly dismissed from a closed shop and introduced the requirement that where a closed shop operated it could only stay if 85% of workers voted for it in periodic ballots.
Duncan-Smith subsequently denied that Tebbit would ever be expelled and Baroness Thatcher publicly said she was 'appalled' at attempts to have Tebbit expelled and telephoned him to say that she was 'four square behind him' [6].
en.allexperts.com /e/n/no/norman_tebbit.htm   (2193 words)

  
 Norman Tebbit
In the aftermath of urban riots in the summer of 1981, Tebbit responded to a suggestion that the rioting was caused by unemployment by saying:
Tebbit decided not to stand in the 1992 election.
After the election he was granted a peerage and entered the House of Lords.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/n/no/norman_tebbit.html   (298 words)

  
 Norman Tebbit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tebbit was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party in 1985 along with being Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster as Thatcher wanted to keep him in the Cabinet.
Tebbit feared that if no action was taken against The Guardian the Labour Party would use this quote against the Conservatives in the upcoming general election.
Tebbit had formally accepted an invitation to speak at a Conservative Monday Club dinner in June 1991 on 'the Future of Conservatism'.
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 Interview: Ned Temko meets Norman Tebbit | Politics | The Observer
Norman Tebbit has become the unofficial standard-bearer for a growing band of right-wing sceptics.
Norman Tebbit bounds up the House of Lords staircase, taking the steps two at a time, towards the peers' tearoom.
As Tebbit holds forth over tea and toast, it is easy to see why he has emerged as unofficial standard-bearer of the loose band of Cameron-sceptics.
observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,,1723785,00.html   (1084 words)

  
 Iain Dale's Diary: Norman Tebbit Refuses to Forgive Brighton Bomber
Norman Tebbit of course cannot, because he and his wife have suffered too much.
Tebbit might be able to swap places, or perhaps not, but he could at least vent and explain how he is feeling.
Tebbit's point was that even God only grants forgiveness when the sinner shows genuine repentance and there is no evidence that Magee has ever repented his wickedness.
iaindale.blogspot.com /2007/05/norman-tebbit-refuses-to-forgive.html   (3241 words)

  
 ePolitix.com - Tebbit: 'Cricket test' could have stopped bombings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1990, while an MP, Tebbit suggested Britain's ethnic minorities should support the England cricket team rather than the team of the country their family originated from.
Lord Tebbit also condemned multiculturalism for undermining British society and said London was "sinking into the same abyss that Londonderry and Belfast sank".
Lord Tebbit also told this website he backed moves to give MPs the right to elect the Tory leader, but said local party associations should have other powers returned to them.
www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200508/072d2cc0-3f3a-494f-8590-3e51127e853b.htm   (542 words)

  
 Tory politician: I'll never forgive IRA bomber who paralysed my wife
This week, former Tory Member of Parliament Norman Tebbit refused to take part in a BBC 'reunion' with the IRA bomber who left his wife paralysed after two bombs exploded at a Brighton hotel where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Tory Party were holding a conference in October 1984.
Tebbit was himself declared unfit for work due to stress, and sent home to pick up the pieces.
Tomorrow, in the absence of having a country to help run, Lord Tebbit is charging off for a meeting with BT about some new phone that his wife can attach to her wheelchair.
forums.canadiancontent.net /international-politics/62026-tory-politician-ill-never-forgive-ira-bomber-who-paralysed-my-wife-post832991.html   (3253 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Tebbit attacks 'unreformed' Islam
In his interview, Lord Tebbit said the 'cricket test' was a means of gauging whether a community had integrated.
Lord Tebbit said multicultural society was "an impossibility" because if there were two cultures there would also be two societies.
On Islam holding back progress Lord Tebbit said: "The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years."
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4163484.stm   (417 words)

  
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 The Tebbit trickle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Norman Tebbit, former chairman of the Conservative Party, is a rare Englishman who conceptually grasps the problem of immigration and multiculturalism and is unafraid to say what he thinks.
When asked for his solution to what the dhimmi careerist historian Niall Ferguson calls the “irreversible” Islamization of Europe, Tebbit sensibly replies that when you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging, then you look around and figure out what to do next.
In the wake of the London bombings (which Tebbit says prove Enoch Powell's warning correct that a multicultural society would be a violent society), may we be so bold as to hope that Tebbit’s (and Powell’s) time has come?
www.amnation.com /vfr/archives/003858.html   (245 words)

  
 Punch.co.uk
One lunch featured Norman - now Lord - Tebbit, the reigning Miss World, the writer of Blackadder, and the managing director of Woolworths.
Norman Tebbit was introduced as 'the person least likely to be served in a Chinese takeaway.' Margaret Thatcher, incidentally, was not merely the first woman Prime Minister.
She was the first woman to attend a Punch Lunch, apart from the Women's Lunch a couple of years earlier.
www.punch.co.uk /punchtable02.html   (343 words)

  
 The Not-Norman-Tebbit Party | spiked   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
If condemning chocolate oranges and putting a micro-windmill on his house are Cameron’s notions of big ideas, however, his eventual micro-proposals are likely to be too microscopic to be visible to the voter’s naked eye.
Just about the only thing of substance available for Cameron to take a stand against in the Tory Party appears to be Lord Tebbit, the former party chairman and keeper of the Thatcherite flame.
How the Cameroons must sigh with relief whenever Tebbit makes another unreconstructed remark, giving them a chance to refute it via the media and hopefully appear modern and moderate by comparison.
www.spiked-online.com /index.php?/site/article/1764   (1265 words)

  
 Norman Tebbit Famous Quote, Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs - QuoteMountain.com
Norman Tebbit Famous Quote, Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs - QuoteMountain.com
The quotes below are those from or by Norman Tebbit.
You can also move quickly to the next quote source, Norman Thomas, or the previous quotable source, Norman Sherry.
www.quotemountain.com /famous_quote_author/norman_tebbit_famous_quotations   (221 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Upwardly Mobile: Books: Norman Tebbit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This book presents its facts in the straightforward lucid style, for which Norman Tebbit (now Lord Tebbit) is renowned.
In telling Norman Tebbit's life history, the book provides a fascinating insight into the sympathetic more human side of him, which was and still tends to be generally overshadowed by his ability to engage in toe to toe arguments with his opponents - which invariably always ended with them being cut up into little pieces.
The book spans all emotions and is thus both a moving and a gripping read.
www.amazon.co.uk /Upwardly-Mobile-Norman-Tebbit/dp/1850893314   (347 words)

  
 Why Norman Tebbit will have reasons to smile-Comment-Columnists-Michael Gove-TimesOnline
And I suspect that the politician who is most likely to find the wind beneath his wings a month hence is that old bustard of the Right, Lord Tebbit of Chingford.
There are several reasons, not all of them necessarily congenial to Times readers, which may give Stormin’ Norman reason to smile this May. The first cause for celebration in Chingford is likely to be the scale of Labour’s losses.
When he formulated his famous cricket test, Norman Tebbit was vilified for suggesting that some ethnic minorities in Britain might experience divided loyalties.
www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article1125625.ece   (1294 words)

  
 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 26 Jun 2003 (pt 10)
The attack on the BBC that was made yesterday by the director of communications is but the tip of the iceberg.
There has been constant pressure on the BBC from this Government for the past six years, and it is far greater than any such pressure that was ever exerted by the likes of Norman Tebbit.
It is immensely important that the BBC is not only allowed to report fairly and accurately, but is seen to be allowed to do so.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030626/debtext/30626-10.htm   (1935 words)

  
 Norman Tebbit quotes, Famous quotations from Norman Tebbit, Populay Sayings at Entwagon.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Norman Tebbit quotes, Famous quotations from Norman Tebbit, Populay Sayings at Entwagon.com
Popular quotations from Norman Tebbit, Top Norman Tebbit quotes, Famous Authors,
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.
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 Amazon.com: "Norman Tebbit": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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Minister and her Cabinet, and five people were killed, including Tony Berry, and John Wakeham's wife Roberta.
John Wakeham and Norman Tebbit and his wife Margaret were severely injured.
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 Independent Online Edition > Bruce Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
To others, he is a martyr to political correctness and a victim of his leader's cowardice.
Norman Tebbit expressed that latter view with his customary incisive lucidity.
We are told, he said, that the modern Tory Party practises compassionate conservatism.
comment.independent.co.uk /columnists_a_l/bruce_anderson   (816 words)

  
 National Doodle Day 2007: Doodles from 2006: Doodle by Lord Norman Tebbit (politician, former Secretary of State for ...
National Doodle Day 2007: Doodles from 2006: Doodle by Lord Norman Tebbit (politician, former Secretary of State for Employment and Conservative party chairman)
Lord Norman Tebbit; politician, former Secretary of State for Employment and Conservative party chairman.
All monies raised by National Doodle Day will support the work of the two charities.
www.epilepsy.org.uk /nationaldoodleday/2006/hall/gallery.cfm?doodle=334   (155 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Question Time | Norman Tebbit answers your questions
Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 15:25 GMT
Following the Question Time debate on 15 February, the former Conservative party chairman Norman Tebbit answers a selection of your questions.
Q: Do you consider that anyone who has taken illegal drugs at any time in their adult life is a fit person to become Prime Minister?
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/question_time/6404257.stm   (1644 words)

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