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...present Parliament, oratory is often more tinny than golden. The only bon mot of the day came from Labor's former Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn. The embattled Benn responded to Tory taunts that he resign by taking an ungentlemanly swipe at Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher: "If the opposition wants my head on a salver, the leader of the Conservative Party will have to be a lot more seductive Salome than she has been so far." Less dazzling repartee came from left-wing Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, who responded testily to a pro-Market interjection by shouting...
...Chart. The 83-page booklet is a collection of irreverent thumbnail descriptions of British politicians written by Manchester Evening News Correspondent Andrew Roth. In Roth's updated pocket guide, Andrew Faulds, a Labor M.P. and former actor, is dismissed as "tall, bearded, rude, sextrovert." Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher rates a more splendid oxymoron: "blonde, stainless-steel Dresden china." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe is characterized as a "middlebrow, U.S.-style show-biz politician." Because almost a quarter of the 635 seats in the Commons changed during last year's two elections, Roth's directory has grown increasingly useful...
...just tickled pink to read that Henry Kissinger has pronounced Margaret Thatcher "quite a girl" [March...
...first time in my life as an American, I envy something Britain has: Tory Margaret Thatcher [Feb. 24]. Her defense of "middleclass interests," espousal of rewards for skill and hard work, and resistance to the excessive power of the state strike a tiny bell of recognition, reminding us that we used to have representatives who spoke in this fashion. May I say, "We could use you here, Margaret...
...years the British press has referred to Shirley Williams, Minister for Consumer Prices, as likely to be the first British woman Prime Minister. Mrs. Thatcher is not Prime Minister yet, and the other choice, encouraged by the press here, should not be forgotten...