Forget left and right: Norman Tebbit was a working-class hero. Politicians now could learn much from him | Henry Hill

R.Perhaps the word “icon” may be diverted freely in the dictionary of memorial. But in the world of the Conservative Party, Norman Tipbit, Which his death was announced todayIt was an icon – the politician who may have approached, with the exception of the Iron Lady, to embody the phenomenon of Tatshri.

Why? It was not thrown into the form of the Harold McMilalan era, to make sure; But Edward Heath was not, and a little affection won this. (It was not actually Margaret Tscher))

Perhaps there was a degree of alien around his working -class background in the front rank of the Conservative Party policy in a more aware of the class.

But Tebbit was not a strange pet, and had no such impression on public awareness if it was. Instead, he managed to embody a deeper, seismic shift in British politics: the Conservative Party plays a very successful conservative party, for large slices of voting from the working class.

It is the nature of the revolutionary legend industry sometimes exaggerating the transformation. The time of the time, operating for a long time, has preceded the precedence, whether its Protestant and federal manifestations in Olster and Scotland, Liverpool or the most widespread mile, which George Dangrafeld in 1935 noticed in his strange death in liberal England, for men working to support the party that had no time for his yellow.

But while the bars in the country may have one day “a series of political fortress” of Lord Salisbury, one can only imagine what he would have made from a working class working as president of the conservative and union party. However, it is paradoxes, that the development facility has always been (until recently) is the strongest lawsuit for the party.

However, the embodiment of change personally is not enough to make an icon. Only it is produced at the best of the tattoo, or perhaps it should be a symbol; A negative object is highly raised to indicate the tip’s adaptation to changing times.

No, what made Tebbit an icon is that he believes in this change and fought for it. He was a fighter, at a stage when the party needed fighters, a true believer in what was in its early years, a very unconfirmed revolution, and Rochha for his leader against the gentle reaction powers that would give her the opportunity, and has gave up and tried it alike.

It will be an ugly policy only consisting of angry parties for each team. But it will be a very hollow policy that made only space for the wet. There is an easy way to turn the faction of the politician ready and able to be tired of them in Plebs, but this does not mean that the task cannot be done well and honor, and Tebbit has done this in honor.

The latter becomes clear from its star running the conference platform. It is clear that there is his famous comment (in) about Get one bike and search for work. But more importantly, in light of subsequent events, his routine must be advocacy and response at the 1992 conference.

“Do you want to be part of the European Union?? He asked the hall; no! “All except the ceiling.

Tebbit paid a price is heavier than most of them for its political profession in the confrontation line; the Brighton bombing He saw him besieged under the rubble for an hour, and more seriously, his wife, Margaret, who cared about her later. But like the true believer he was, he remained involved in the party and what has become the European cause. He also managed to hold a contract of time without obtaining air and blessings, and in the digital age he proved that he is more than what he wanted to wander in the comments under his own Telegraph blog and end it with everyone.

Courage, energy, and originality – this was tebbit in the Bastone, the things that are made of political symbols.

One may manipulate that my definition does not indicate the actual content of Tebbit beliefs. But this is deliberate. Certainly, he held many opinions that the readers of this newspaper will differ deeply, then, and his views on social issues were far from the step with modern society.

But an icon is not a hero, except for perhaps the Greek sense; The perception of a person does not require agreement with all or even whatever they represent. Each movement will have its own icon, and one of the great strengths of democracy – or in reality the basic requirements – realize that there is space in public life for more than one.

In fact, as a conservative, it seems that it is too late, it seems that he was a stronger and more vital conservative party whose boss had a great figure who could sometimes embarrass the leader.

• Henry Hill is the deputy editor -in -chief of the province

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