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Quote by Norman Tebbit
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of

The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. – Norman Tebbit

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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. – Norman Tebbit

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