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1942–2006 Northern Ireland
Anthony Louis "Tony" Banks, Baron Stratford (8 April 1942 – 8 January 2006) was a British Labour politician who served as a member of Parliament from 1983 to 2005 and subsequently as a member of the House of Lords. He served as Minister for Sport from 1997 to 1999.
Northern Ireland Activists Also known as: Banks, Tony, Tony Banks
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Since the great days of Jimmy Greaves, it's the only time anyone's managed to score five times in a Chelsea shirt.
Personally I wish the police had truncheoned the English fans to death, but I can’t really say that on the record.
At one point Portillo was polishing his jackboots and planning the next advance. And the next thing is he shows up as a TV presenter. It is rather like Pol Pot presenting the Teletubbies.
She behaves with all the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa constrictor
To make matters worse, they have elected a foetus as the party leader. I bet a lot of them wish they had not voted against abortion now!
I have gone to a safe house, as they say, so I might as well have a different name
Living proof that a pig's bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to Parliament
She is a half-mad old bag lady. The Finchley Whinger.
We'll look back and wonder who were these barbarous people, just like we look back at those who supported bull-baiting
...so unpopular, if he became a funeral director people would stop dying
I found it intellectually numbing, tedious in the extreme. All you were was a sort of high-powered social worker and perhaps not even a good one. So I won't miss that.
I think my exact words were "Fuck me!"
He was a fairly competent chairman of Housing [on Lambeth Council]. Every time he gets up now I keep thinking, "What on earth is Councillor Major doing?" I can't believe he's here and sometimes I think he can't either.
I am finding the inherent politeness of this place quite destabilising. Having come from a House where politeness is about as rare as an orderly queue at a London bus stop, the culture shock on entering your Lordships' House has been profound. Indeed, such relentless politeness is not merely destabilising, but positively exhausting.