Lord (Norman) Tebbit

Chippycafc

soapy_jones said:

RIP to one of the best Spitting Image puppets out there.

Proper kick in the bollocks Tory!

Didn't they make him look like a  hells angel. 

Chippycafc

gringo said:

Chippycafc said:

gringo said:

Chippycafc said:

Hated him. Got sick of his comments and the way he looked down on the working class of this country, whilst filling his boots with one day directorships of companies.

Had a few friends who committed suicide due to his government's evil policies. 

Hated the unions and the people they represented. But as Blackpool said, you could reel of the cabinet even that long ago,  rather than the spineless clowns in charge today. 

I don't  think he hated the working class at all (which his family was), more the non- working class, and he also didn't have a lot of time for the upper class tory party.

I lived through his term in office, and was a union official in the dockyard, and he sneered at us and was flippant when they shutdown the yards and made thousands redundant.

He didn't give a shit and was so far up thatchers arse it was sickening. 

he was a union official himself at BALPA.

Then he should have known better. Night after night he was moaning about greedy unions whilst nicely being on figurehead of companies at 100k a pop. 

Chippycafc

ShootersHillGuru said:

PrincessFiona said:

So this is going to turn into another Right v Left slanging match is it?

Not really. I had no admiration for the man when he was alive as I believe he did more damage than good and was an unlikeable character. He’s passed now so RIP

Summed up nicely mate... 

Chippycafc

PrincessFiona said:

So this is going to turn into another Right v Left slanging match is it?

Don't think anyone has crossed any lines, just people' sharing their thoughts about him sad he has died but also sad some of the grief his policies caused some people.

RIP Norman. 

AddicksAddict

JohnnyH2 said:

bobmunro said:

Well as the old saying goes, if you can't say anything nice then don't say anything.

Says more about the posters to go on an obituary thread and saying anything other than paying respects for the deceased 

Or maybe you access a thread to see what it’s about and hate the person so much you don’t want to pay any respect to them. 

PrincessFiona

cafcnick1992 said:

PrincessFiona said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

PrincessFiona said:

So this is going to turn into another Right v Left slanging match is it?

Not really. I had no admiration for the man when he was alive as I believe he did more damage than good and was an unlikeable character. He’s passed now so RIP

Not from you maybe, I just meant the general thread. Politicians these days are quite different to those 30 or 40 years ago. And I don't mean in a good way

Politicians back then did have some conviction. These days, Lib/Lab/Con politicans are completely interchangable. Liz Truss was a lib dem.

to a certain extent this is true of some maybe many

with all the intrusions, poking into every element of their current and earlier lives and the security risks, sadly many people who would make great MPs would never consider a career in politics

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

golfaddick said:

Stood up to the Unions

Stood up to the IRA

Gave us bikes & the cricket test.

God rest his soul.

RIP.

Was part of a government that oversaw an increase in unemployment from 1.5 million when they took over to 3.3 million by 1984 and then stigmatised and scapegoated the unemployed as scroungers, implying they should just get on their bikes and go looking for work.
Then set to work on moving the goalposts by changing the definition of "unemployed" for statistical purposes.
I am not absolutely anti-Thatcher, but I can't let your post go unchallenged.
They promoted an every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost selfish mentality that has never really gone away.
There was no room or kindness for the disadvantaged

clb74

AddicksAddict said:

JohnnyH2 said:

bobmunro said:

Well as the old saying goes, if you can't say anything nice then don't say anything.

Says more about the posters to go on an obituary thread and saying anything other than paying respects for the deceased 

Or maybe you access a thread to see what it’s about and hate the person so much you don’t want to pay any respect to them. 

Whys it always the left though?

Clem_Snide

Finally reunited in the 7th layer of hell with Maggie.

cafcnick1992

Clem_Snide said:

Finally reunited in the 7th layer of hell with Maggie.

#BeKind

stop_shouting

RIP

Gisappointed

Rest in piss. Racist cnut.

Jints

I've never voted Tory in my life but find some of these comments very distasteful. Sometimes very ashamed of fellow lefties.

blackpool72

Jints said:

I've never voted Tory in my life but find some of these comments very distasteful. Sometimes very ashamed of fellow lefties.

Ditto 

Chizz

@Gisappointed I think you should consider editing your post.  It doesn't reflect well on you or on Charlton Life. 

cafcdave123

Fucking hell I can smell the chips from here!

Karim_myBagheri

I'm sure Tebbit would of loved a thread like this about him 

SoundAsa£

Never once saw him smile…..a stoney faced miserable bastard of the first order.
A clever, intelligent man, who sadly put his gifts of communication to poor use.

Off_it

People. Just. Can't. Be. Trusted. To. Behave. With. Civility.

Embarrassing.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Off_it said:

People. Just. Can't. Be. Trusted. To. Behave. With. Civility.

Embarrassing.

Strong words but describe Tebbit perfectly.

Karim_myBagheri

Off_it said:

People. Just. Can't. Be. Trusted. To. Behave. With. Civility.

Embarrassing.

Yeah shouldn't go down to Tebbits level.

Gisappointed

Chizz said:

@Gisappointed I think you should consider editing your post.  It doesn't reflect well on you or on Charlton Life. 

"A large proportion of Britain's Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. Which side do they cheer for? It is an interesting test. Are you still harking back to where you came from or where you are? I think we have got real problems in that regard."

If thats not a racist cnut, you should come down to my pub and meet his acolytes decades later. At 71 I really have to hold my tongue to not be beaten up.

What's worse is we have a PM, supposedly is a Labour politician who claims the UK is "an island if strangers".

A supposed Human Rights lawyer spouting racist right wing propaganda, found wanting of his defence of genocide in Gaza, due to bringing his children up in the Jewish faith. 

Incidentally, I was born in Australia but support our football and cricket sides, but I dont begrudge Indians or Carribeans supporting their roots. FFS our Royal family are Germans.

DaveMehmet

Can someone remind me why we don’t have political threads on here anymore? Really can’t work it out.

Karim_myBagheri

DaveMehmet said:

Can someone remind me why we don’t have political threads on here anymore? Really can’t work it out.

It's cos Makro customers complained they couldn't get into the car park with the amount of fights going on. 

Gisappointed

Thanks, I will avoid Makro.

Chizz

Gisappointed said:

Chizz said:

@Gisappointed I think you should consider editing your post.  It doesn't reflect well on you or on Charlton Life. 

"A large proportion of Britain's Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. Which side do they cheer for? It is an interesting test. Are you still harking back to where you came from or where you are? I think we have got real problems in that regard."

If thats not a racist cnut, you should come down to my pub and meet his acolytes decades later. At 71 I really have to hold my tongue to not be beaten up.

What's worse is we have a PM, supposedly is a Labour politician who claims the UK is "an island if strangers".

A supposed Human Rights lawyer spouting racist right wing propaganda, found wanting of his defence of genocide in Gaza, due to bringing his children up in the Jewish faith. 

Incidentally, I was born in Australia but support our football and cricket sides, but I dont begrudge Indians or Carribeans supporting their roots. FFS our Royal family are Germans.

Thank you for at least considering it 

lolwray

Gisappointed said:

Rest in piss. Racist cnut.

You should be ashamed of yourself. What an ignorant remark.If he wasn't your favourite person you could just scroll down or move on ..I really do find some of these remarks embarrassing 

SporadicAddick

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usetobunkin

All for free speech, freedom of expression. But with those two privileges comes a degree of responsibility. 
While robust language can make a real impact. Abuse someone and the message is lost.

Gisappointed

lolwray said:

Gisappointed said:

Rest in piss. Racist cnut.

You should be ashamed of yourself. What an ignorant remark.If he wasn't your favourite person you could just scroll down or move on ..I really do find some of these remarks embarrassing 

I read a quote today in a newspaper. 

The real enemies of the working class don’t arrive in a small boat. They fly in by private jet.’

Tories tell you otherwise. Please tell me one section of society that haven't experienced falling living standards through a decade and a half (and more to come under Reeves) but have actually flourished.