Tebbit's dead

[Ian H]

Beneath the Grauniad's obituary is a 2013 interview by Decca Aitkenhead.
Oddly enough, almost the only person to get a good word from Tebbit (apart from Boris Johnson, who he loves, but doesn't see as PM material) is Jimmy Savile, with whom the couple became friends through charitable work at Stoke Mandeville hospital.
"I've got no doubt Jimmy Savile was a very odd fellow, and I'm pretty sure he was in breach of the law on a number of matters. But I do not know that it's possible, 40 years on, to do justice in the sense of knowing just how many of those allegations are complete and true."
(The entire interview is an amusing read).

 

[winjim]

In his memory I'll be cheering for India in the upcoming test match.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

In my opinion he was at least a politician that genuinely believed in what he was doing and believed it was the right thing to do


Didn;t agree with his concept of opinions and the older I got and the more I understood the less I agreed with him

but at least he seemed to honestly believe it was the right thing to do

which is more than I can say for a lot of them

 

[bobzmyunkle]

In my opinion he was at least a politician that genuinely believed in what he was doing and believed it was the right thing to do


Didn;t agree with his concept of opinions and the older I got and the more I understood the less I agreed with him

but at least he seemed to honestly believe it was the right thing to do

which is more than I can say for a lot of them

Apparently a Labour peer said yesterday he was a nice bloke really. I can only get as far as agreeing with the above - he was genuine in his odious views.