Norman Tebbit

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Norman Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, 2017.

Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit , CH , PC (born March 29, 1931 in Enfield ) is a British Conservative politician, former member of the House of Commons and the British Cabinet.

Life

Tebbit was a journalist for the Financial Times before serving in the Royal Air Force for four years . He then joined the former international airline BOAC as a pilot in 1953 . In 1970 he switched to politics and has since represented the constituency of Chingford .

Member of Parliament

Tebbit was a close ally of Margaret Thatcher . He was a member of her cabinet as Minister of Labor and Minister for Trade and Industry (October 1983 - September 1985). From 1985 to 1987 he was party leader of the Conservative Party. He was seriously injured in an IRA bomb attack in Brighton on October 12, 1984. His wife Margaret suffered paraplegia and was then permanently dependent on a wheelchair. In 1987, Tebbit resigned from the cabinet as minister in order to have more time for his wife.

In 1975 six men (the "Ferrybridge Six") were made redundant for the introduction of the closed shop and were denied their right to unemployment benefits. Then-Labor Secretary Michael Foot said that anyone "who refuses to work under the new working conditions will be seen as having caused their own resignation". Tebbit accused Foot then of pure fascism and stood Foot as a fierce opponent of freedom . In a famous retort called Foot then Tebbit than half housebroken Iltis ( a semi-house-trained polecat ). When Tebbit was later ennobled and when Baron Tebbit took a seat in the House of Lords, he had to choose a coat of arms. He chose a polecat as part of his coat of arms.

After the urban riots in Handsworth and Brixton in the summer of 1981, Tebbit replied to an assumption that the riots were due to unemployment: “ I grew up with an unemployed father in the 1930s. He did not participate in riots. He took his bike to look for work and he kept searching until he found one. “Hence the original slogan“ get on yer bike ”, which Tebbit was ascribed to.

The legendary miners' strike in 1984/85 , during which the British miners under their union boss Arthur Scargill struck in vain against colliery closings for more than a year, ushered in the turning point in the dispute between the Thatcher cabinet and the British unions. During his tenure as labor minister in the Thatcher cabinet, Tebbit broke with the tradition of the closed shop, compulsory union membership in certain companies, banned flying pickets , which could hinder companies without being employees, and ordered union members to vote on strikes and no longer the union bosses decide. From now on, strikes may only be carried out under threat of severe fines to improve working conditions and pay, but no longer for general political reasons.

In 1986, while chairing the Conservative Party, Tebbit led the right-wing campaign against a BBC broadcast about the American bombing of Tripoli .

He was also best known for the " cricket test," also known as the "Tebbit Test," in which he suggested that immigrants and their descendants in Britain should not be considered true British until they beat the English cricket team against their team own country of origin. In August 2005, following the July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks in London by three young men of Pakistani and one man of Jamaican descent, Tebbit called for his position to be rehabilitated.

Elevation to the nobility

Tebbit decided not to run as his party's top candidate in the parliamentary elections in 1992 in order to devote more time to his disabled wife. After the elections he was raised to a life peer as Baron Tebbit , of Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest , and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since. His former constituency of Chingford was merged with that of Woodford Green by changes in the constituency boundaries and held by his successor and protégé Iain Duncan Smith for the Conservative Party.

Tebbit is still a highly influential figure in the Conservative Party as a representative of the right wing and vice president of the Conservative Way Forward group. He remains an extreme Eurosceptic, and his career views on race and immigration have earned him both support and disgrace - his nickname as a candidate for Parliament was "Chingford Skinhead ".

In 2004 he again provoked violent reactions with his outspoken opposition to the proposed legislation of the British government for the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships.

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  1. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452812/Lord-Tebbit--Ill-forgive-IRA-bomber.html
  2. ↑ Deborah Ross: Norman Tebbit: 'Margaret and I both made the same mistake. We neglected to clone ourselves'. The Independent, October 3, 2009, accessed December 13, 2015 .
  3. ↑ A House full of insults. BBC News, December 8, 2005, accessed December 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Original: I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking 'til he found it. Quoted in: Tom de Castella: Beveridge report: From 'deserving poor' to 'scroungers'? BBC News, November 26, 2012, accessed December 12, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Tebbit, Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tebbit, Norman Beresford, Baron Tebbit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Enfield