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Britannist

The biased pro-EU BBC do not say in their report (on the link in the above posting from RJT) to whom Lord Tebbit was delivering the speech.

This could be deliberate or just possibly careless reporting.

Populist Lee

I could be corrected on this point.

Lord Tebbit might have been delivering "The First Goldsmith Lecture" at University College London.

TonyG

It doesn't sound like the content of a lecture though, does it?

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Populist Lee

I don't think "Lecture" in this case should be taken as literal.
Tebbit was due to speak this evening (Tuesday), and deliver what was billed as "The First Goldsmith Lecture".

Whether these quotes attributed to Lord Tebbit were uttered this evening or earlier, I cannot say.

If the BBC was up to its job, we wouldn't need to speculate.

TonyG

I can't find anything at all on this, no matter what combination I put in. It looks like the BBC are the only ones to know about it...
Spooky.

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Britannist

Lord Tebbit's comments (referred to earlier in this thread) and the decision of a Conservative councillor at Sutton, Surrey, to switch to UKIP, are reported in today's Times (comments may be left after the article on the link below):

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1826732.ece

TonyG

Hmm, still doesn't say where he was speaking, or to whom.

The comment at the bottom though should cheer up UKIP a little:

Having got rid of blair the dictator, It now seems that we now have Cameron the dictator in waiting. My vote, after 50 years of voting tory will not be going to a man who's attitude is like blairs was, sod the people I will do it my way. I guess it will be UKIP here I come.
Anthony Higham, Manchester

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Britannist

Lord Tebbit's comments and the defection of a Conservative councillor at Sutton in Surrey to UKIP are covered in today's Daily Mail:

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Britannist

This issue of David Cameron's policy on grammar schools could be starting to make the Conservatives look disunited. I wonder if it will have any negative effect on the position of the Conservatives in the opinion polls.

One person has criticised David Cameron for the way he came across on the Today programme (according to the article on the Daily Mail - refer to the link in the last posting to my thread).