Cameron Can Overcome Mitchell Crisis by Imposing Some Discipline
THE OBSERVER: It's not so bad being called a toff. A toff who sorted out the country's problems would be very popular

The headlines on the front pages of the upmarket papers last week had been bad enough for Cameron, but the Saturday tabloids were an absolute disaster. This dog of a coalition government has let itself be given a bad name and now anyone can beat it. It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs. Past governments have had far more real Tory toffs: prime ministers Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Macmillan, or even in Thatcher's day, Whitelaw, Soames, Hailsham, Carrington, Gowrie, Joseph, Avon, Trenchard and plenty more, without incurring similar abuse. » | Norman Tebbit | Saturday, October 20, 2012

New Dark Age Alert! This 'Modernising' Government Is Turning the Clock Back – to the Violence and Illiteracy of the 18th Century
TELEGRAPH – BLOGS – NORMAN TEBBIT: Very often when I raise my head and mutter, or even shout, that things were arranged better in my young days, I am told that "You can't turn the clock back." It is a way of closing down the discussion. There is then no need to consider whether or not things were better. You just can't put the clock back, so that is that. Francis Maude was at it yesterday, seeking to prevent any discussion of whether or not Conservatives should be in favour of changing the definition of marriage, which has served us across so many cultures and religions so well for so long.

Even before that, I think it was the recent trial of the couple who murderd a little boy because they believed he was a witch that started me thinking about that dishonest way of thinking. Lots of people here in England used to believe in witchcraft, and witches were tortured and burned to death. Such barbarous atrocities were stopped long years ago, but oddly enough it is again the modernisers who have themselves turned the clock back to those days when people believed in witchcraft.

Nor is that all. Once not so very long ago tuberculosis was a widespread fatal disease here. Good public health policies began to overcome TB during the early 20th century; by the 1950s it was almost eliminated, and by the late 1970s just about extinct. Over the last 15 years the clock has been turned back, and TB is now back in our great cities. Read on and comment » | Norman Tebbit | Thursday, March 08, 2012

My comment:

Great blog post! Painful to read! Methinks the best thing to do now is get out of the UK before the ship is completely sunk. What could be done to rescue the UK cannot be done, because people are not free to think anymore. There are too many laws prohibiting this, that, and the other. The rot started when greed was made good. Then NuLabour came along and completely screwed up everything, bringing masses of backward-thinking people into the country. The Coalition is doing next-to-nothing about any of our problems. In this government, there is not a strong man in sight. They're all part of the pretty brigade: image trumps ability; sweet words trump action. – © Mark

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Norman Tebbit: The Government Goes Easy on Suspected Terrorists – Thanks to the Lib Dems
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH – EXTRACT: Now, according to the Sunday Times, the junior partners in the Coalition have won the row over control orders on suspected terrorists. The Prime Minister, it claims, has sided with the Lib Dems against his own Home Secretary. Mr Clegg takes the high-minded view that the security of this country and its people are secondary to the “human rights” of suspected terrorists. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, who has responsibility for such matters, is known to take a different view, putting the human right of law-abiding citizens not to be blown to bits by demented suicide bombers first. Read the whole article here and comment >>> Norman Tebbit | Monday, January 03, 2011

Norman Tebbit – It's Time to Close the Door. Britain Must Move Towards a Policy of Zero Net Immigration
THE TELEGRAPH – BLOG: … Let me be open about where I stand. These islands are our islands. They do not belong to the political classes, the European Commission, the United Nations, nor the government of the day. We live here and it is we, the people, who have the absolute right to decide who may, and who may not, come here and upon what conditions they come.

That is probably enough to have me held under suspicion of racism and worse. But there is more to come.

Immigration can, and in the past often has, brought benefits to the host population and to the immigrants. I am not thinking just of the Huguenots, nor the Jewish refugees fleeing from Hitler’s national socialist persecution, nor the Poles, Czechs and Slovaks who played a critical if not decisive role in the Battle of Britain. More recently I have concluded that, although I was of the view that the Ugandan Asian refugees should have gone to India rather than come here, it is clear that they have been major contributors to the economy and society more generally.

Again, I have no problem with the recent wave of central European migrants. Overwhelmingly, they have come here to work. They mostly pay their taxes. Many will return home; those who stay will integrate into our society. I know few more British men than some of my old aircrew friends, Jasinski, Kryzanowski, Schermak, Gelbaur, Grzybowski, and more whose grandchildren are utterly British but bear their names with pride. Oh, and I had bettter declare an interest. I have employed quite a few central Europeans to care for my wife.

The characterisic that such immigrants have in common is at least an acceptance of our ways, and more often a sharing of the inheritance that has shaped our habits and culture here in this European offshore island. Read on and comment >>> Norman Tebbit | Sunday, February 07, 2010

Cameron Apologises to Gays
MAIL Online: David Cameron has issued an extraordinary apology on behalf of the Conservative Party for legislation banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools.

He said the party had 'got it wrong' when it introduced Section 28 in the late 1980s.

It is one of a series of apologies Mr Cameron has made for his party's actions in government.

The Scots received one in 2006 for having the poll tax imposed on them a year before it was introduced in England.

The Tory leader's latest remarks, during an appearance at a Gay Pride event, were attacked last night by traditionalists on the Right of his party.

They pointed out that as recently as 2003, when Tony Blair axed the clause, Mr Cameron voted for a Tory amendment described by gay rights groups as 'Section 28 by the back door'.

Former party chairman Lord Tebbit said he suspected the apology had been driven by 'focus group findings'.

The gay vote - estimated at 2.65 million people - will be a key political battleground ahead of an election expected next May.
Gordon Brown is hosting a gathering of leading gay and lesbian figures in Downing Street on Saturday, and his wife Sarah is joining a Gay Pride march.

Section 28 was introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government in response to evidence of Left-wing councils promoting gay relationships in schools.

It prevented councils and schools from intentionally promoting homosexuality, but became a focal point for anger for gay rights campaigners.

Mr Cameron insisted he was making his apology because the legislation had been ' offensive to gay people'.

'I'm sorry for Section 28. We got it wrong. It was an emotional issue. We have got to move on and we have moved on,' he said.

He insisted that under his leadership the party was embracing gay rights and predicted it would produce Britain's first gay Prime Minister. Cameron apologises to gays for Section 28: Law to ban promotion of homosexuality in schools was wrong, says Tory leader >>> James Chapman | Thursday, July 02, 2009

Sharia Law 'Same' as Krays' Rule, Says Lord Tebbit
Lord Tebbit has reignited the row over Islamic courts and their role in the British justice system. Photo courtesy of MailOnline
MAIL Online: Veteran Tory Lord Tebbit provoked anger among Muslims yesterday by comparing Islamic sharia courts to gangsters.

He likened the tribunals to the 'system of arbitration of disputes that was run by the Kray brothers'.

Lord Tebbit told the Lords: 'Are you not aware that there is extreme pressure put upon vulnerable women to go through a form of arbitration that results in them being virtually precluded from access to British law?'

The intervention from Lord Tebbit, the former Tory chairman and cabinet minister whose leading role in the Thatcher years has made him a revered figure for many in the party, reignited the row over Islamic courts and their role in the British justice system.

Muslim critics called his remarks 'baseless and ignorant'.

Last autumn, ministers confirmed that sharia tribunals may deal with family and divorce disputes among Muslims, and that sharia decisions need only the briefest scrutiny in a law court to win full legal effect.

Five sharia courts currently operate mediation systems approved under the 1996 Arbitration Act.

Their decisions on divorce, money and children can be approved by a family court if they are submitted to a judge for approval. >>> By Steve Doughty | Thursday, June 04, 2009

Blair’s New Labour Government Guilty of ”Administrative and Constitutional Vandalism”, says Norman Tebbit

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WESTERN MAIL: CONSERVATIVE grandee Lord Tebbit yesterday took a swipe at David Cameron’s leadership of the party, accusing him of rebranding the Tories as “the party to implement New Labour policies more effectively”.

The comment from Margaret Thatcher’s former party chairman came in a speech in which he launched a ferocious broadside at Tony Blair’s Government for its administration of Britain.

“Administrative and constitutional vandalism” by the New Labour Government had cost Britain its historic freedoms, while bringing in a raft of oppressive state powers over the individual, he said. Tebbit slams constitutional vandalism (more)

Mark Alexander