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[Nickbat]

He's started blogging and his style is witty and sharp.

About government policy:
"It seems to me that our masters these days are willing to use a carrot and stick approach, but they almost always use the stick on the poor old donkey’s nose and inflict a terrible indignity on the beast with the carrot at its other end."

On tax:
"It is madness to claim that people so poor that they need welfare payments are at the same time sufficiently well-off to pay income tax. The effect is that people at the bottom of the stack living on benefits who try to get back into work are hit by 20 per cent tax, 11 per cent National Insurance and benefit losses that can add up to amost 100 pence in the pound. It is all very well for the better-off to complain about the disincentive effect of losing 50 per cent of every extra pound they earn, but what about the poor devil at the bottom of the stack who loses 90 per cent?"

Excellent stuff!! 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100022127/why-wont-the-two-main-parties-do-anything-about-the-madness-of-taxing-the-poor/

[Hannah Judes Dad]

He is a lot sharper than many people give him credit for and is not afraid to speak the (hurtful) truth either.

[mantahatch]

He would have made a good PM 20 years ago. I have always had respect for him. I also believe that bomb robbed the UK of good politician.

[Dishevelled Den]

Yes, it's refreshing to have some direct comments from a leading politician rather than the mealy-mouthed verbiage so often heard.

[Entwood]

A good lad... always told it "as it is" and not afraid to speak his mind. One of the most astute politicians we have had. as said .. the IRA robbed us of a good man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Tebbit

[Hannah Judes Dad]

I can't beleive time has flown by,I was 12 when that happened!!

[Kevin Wood]

A good lad... always told it "as it is" and not afraid to speak his mind. One of the most astute politicians we have had. as said .. the IRA robbed us of a good man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Tebbit

Very interesting quote there from 1975:

We perhaps need to revive the phrase "social fascism" to describe the modern British development of the corporate state and its bureaucratic attack on personal liberty. The question is not therefore: "is Mr. Foot a fascist?" but "does Mr. Foot know he is a fascist?"[

But for the last sentence it could have been written today. 

Kevin

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Nasty Norm's second statement.......almost makes him sound like a socialist..........

[jerry]

Couldnt say that he was ever a favourite of mine ,but admit that he at least says it as he sees it and can be very incisive at times-or maybe this is just me getting older and more right wing as my youthfull socialism falls to cynicism (and cynicism is sadly born from experience) :-/

[Vamps]

Not this one......