IMPORTANT NOTE: You do NOT have to register to read, post, listen or contribute. If you simply wish to remain fully anonymous, you can still contribute.
He believed that homosexuals should not have senior cabinet posts...
I wonder if his reason was - particularly back then - that they could be open to blackmail? Which would be concern for national security, rather than homophobia...
Green Man
What happened to the seniors with their "No fucks given" trait?
He believed that homosexuals should not have senior cabinet posts...
Reading that made me go looking for further information and I found this article from 2013. It gave me a few laughs.
"These must be troubling times for Norman Tebbit. He's clearly not a fan of gay marriage; or of David Cameron. In fact, almost the only person to get a good word from him is Jimmy Savile"
The bit about gay marriage and Jimmy Savile being odd and possibly a homosexual made me wonder if Norman Tebbit could have substituted either of the participants in this conversation:
hedda
Wyot wrote: hedda wrote: Sorry couldn't stand him.
On your bike ! Utter claptrap.
another vacuous idiotic solution to Britain's unemployment problem as if people could just give up their homes and travel elsewhere, find a new home and look for a job.
Another disastrous Thatcherite idiocy up there with her ludicrous "other people's money" gormless statement.
What a legacy that mob have left..everything dreadful today can be laid at their feet including the sh*t being poured into Britain's rivers.
Yes the Brighton bombing was just appalling.
Not everything is about politics Hedda!
My nod to him anyway was an acknowledgment that (whatever one's views of them) he had principles and did not sway in the media wind. And he seemed to be a decent, loyal and honorable man in his private life...virtues and words so hopelessly old fashioned now...
yes there is merit in that and as I've said before, although I disagreed with every Thatcher policy..she didn't lie. She said exactly what she was going to do and did it for good or bad.
And she obviously inspired loyalty within her party.
Wyot
hedda wrote: Sorry couldn't stand him.
On your bike ! Utter claptrap.
another vacuous idiotic solution to Britain's unemployment problem as if people could just give up their homes and travel elsewhere, find a new home and look for a job.
Another disastrous Thatcherite idiocy up there with her ludicrous "other people's money" gormless statement.
What a legacy that mob have left..everything dreadful today can be laid at their feet including the sh*t being poured into Britain's rivers.
Yes the Brighton bombing was just appalling.
Not everything is about politics Hedda!
My nod to him anyway was an acknowledgment that (whatever one's views of them) he had principles and did not sway in the media wind. And he seemed to be a decent, loyal and honorable man in his private life...virtues and words so hopelessly old fashioned now...