Norman Tebbit DEAD

[jivafox]

The iron lady now much less lonely in hell.

 

[Shirley]

THEY SAID IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN

 

[Sardonicus]

@octophone you got your wish for this after you said it in the Brian Wilson thread! Not a bad hit rate after LePen at the start of the year.

I would say RIP but I wouldn't mean it.

 

[octophone]

Someone IM'ed me at work to tell me this news and I came STRAIGHT HERE!

Absolutely one of the very worst of the Thatcher era. A liar, a racist, an open hatred of everyone born north of Watford and a certified weapons-grade arsehole.

Cheerio!

 

[jivafox]

Another of those crypt keepers OBSESSED with the gays. Was opposed to gay marriage thanks to his fantasies of a lesbian queen using a turkey baster!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Jimmy Saville however, you need to look at BOTH SIDES

 

[lolly]

This from a Guardian interview in 2013 made me chuckle.

I ask if he would consider himself a homophobe. "Well, it's interesting that it's allowed for one group of people to insult and shout names at another group without any restriction, but if I were to shout names at that group they would immediately say I was committing a hate crime. No, I'm not a homophobe."

Most people today would say that if you don't want gay people to "flaunt" their sexuality, or express their love in public, you are probably homophobic. "Well, it doesn't mean you hate them. It doesn't mean you're in fear of them. It means you'd rather they didn't do that." But why? He pauses. "Because that's not the way human beings are constructed."

I ask if he is familiar with psychological studies that have tested heterosexual men's response to gay pornography. As I explain to him that electrodes attached to the penis measure sexual arousal, the temperature in the room plummets. The funny thing is, I go on, heterosexual men with relaxed attitudes to homosexuals are unmoved by gay porn – whereas those hostile to homosexuals exhibit sexual arousal. Why does he think that might be? By now Tebbit is looking ill, and his wife has turned white.

"I think there's something weird about people who want to go and have electrodes attached to their penises and watch pornography," he says brusquely, getting to his feet. "I don't think they're a representative group. Margaret, would you like your tea?"

 

[AGinAg (37)]

GREAT NEWS TO WAKE UP TO.

41 years TOO LATE, but YER KNOW.

 

[octophone]

Oh, he was one of the major homophobes too, wasn't he? I'd almost forgotten because that was basically ALL OF THEM.

 

[octophone]

PRICK.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I'm horrified to see he was quite good looking in his youth.

 

[octophone]

Proof that being evil is bad for you.

 

[jivafox]

He was giving Christoph Waltz before the rot rose to the surface.

 

[Sardonicus]

Jimmy Saville however, you need to look at BOTH SIDES

Pol Pot might have been a GENOCIDE ENTHUSIAST but he could tell a good KNOCK KNOCK JOKE. You've got to consider ALL ASPECTS.

 

[VV]

I don't know much about him if I'm honest, except that he was part of Thatcher's government.

 

[Indie]

I honestly thought the old turd died years ago.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I honestly thought the old turd died years ago.

Oh he had a bad habit of STILL popping up.

 

[Tisch]

Lovely anecdote form The Snu's Kelvin MacKenzie about him being an excellent "peasant" shooter

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I don't know much about him if I'm honest, except that he was part of Thatcher's government.

No RIP then?

 

[jivafox]

No RIP then?

Give them a chance to read his wiki page.

 

[lolly]

He was the face of my childhood nightmares even before I understood his politics.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Just checking in to see how many cabinet ministers from Thatcher's first ministry are still with us. There's just four: John Howell; Michael Heseltine: Tom King and Norman Fowler.

 

[funky]

He was giving Christoph Waltz

…in Inglourious Basterds, yes!