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> [ \[The poll tax\] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/the-poll-tax-was-a-classic-case-of-a-good-idea-being-entrusted-to/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

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## More by Norman Tebbit

> [The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/the-muslim-religion-is-so-unreformed-since-it-was-created-that/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [I've never bashed a union in my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/i-ve-never-bashed-a-union-in-my-life/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/it-is-certainly-safe-in-view-of-the-movement-to-the-right-of/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/we-need-to-create-an-enterprise-culture-a-society-where-successful/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/it-s-good-to-remember-the-unburied-dead-and-the-uncollected-rubbish/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/if-they-muslim-women-wish-to-cover-their-faces-and-isolate-themselves/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/i-grew-up-in-the-30s-with-an-unemployed-father-he-didn-t-riot-he-got/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/the-bbc-is-another-part-of-the-destruction-of-great-britain-the-truth/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/i-suspect-that-the-only-thing-that-will-take-articles-two-and-three/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [Parliament must not be told adirect untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/parliament-must-not-be-told-adirect-untruth-but-it-s-quite-possible/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/i-think-that-could-be-perhaps-a-little-misleading-and-even-our/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/perhaps-election-fever-is-developing-into-something-more-like/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/bad-art-was-as-good-as-good-art-grammar-and-spelling-were-no-longer/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/parliament-must-not-be-told-a-direct-untruth-but-it-s-quite-possible/)

[Norman Tebbit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-tebbit/)

> [ \[The poll tax\] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-tebbit/the-poll-tax-was-a-classic-case-of-a-good-idea-being-entrusted-to/)

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