David Willett's High Tory List

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David Willett's High Tory List

The Tories have spotted an opportunity for a little seasonal publicity with their yuletide list of Great Britons.

Submitted by Peter Welch on 26 December 2006 - 10:25am

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On 26 December 2006 - 7:12pm, Rosemary (not verified) wrote:

This smacks of TPC (Tory Political Correctness), doesn´t it?

What right-thinking Tory of a pre-Cameron age would have thought for one minute of putting Nye Bevan on the list? Was it not he who proclaimed that the "Tories are lower than vermin"?

But Cameron is now posturing as the champion of the NHS, so Bevan needs to be included to boost the image, doesn´t he?

Do we know who the eminent historians are who prostituted their reputation in the interests of Cameron´s public relations campaign?

On 26 December 2006 - 7:17pm, Rosemary (not verified) wrote:

And Oliver Cromwell?

Previously all Tories would have gone for Charles I.

Does this mean that Cameron is on the point of declaring the Tories a Republican Party?

On 26 December 2006 - 11:52pm, julie (not verified) wrote:

On the BBC´s web page we find the following snippet:

"The list was compiled by the party's policy adviser, Sean Lang, of Anglia Ruskin University."

This is not an institution that I know much about - well, frankly, nothing at all. Is it the same as the University of Cambridge by any chance?

But I am sure that, as the Tory Party´s policy adviser, Mr Lang must have been inpervious to suggestions about who he should or should not include. Ehem!! Cough!!!

On 28 December 2006 - 12:04pm, Tristan Mills wrote:

Anglia Ruskin is the old Anglia Polytechnic (as Google so helpfully tells you).

And there's nothing wrong with Cambridge University anyway. Its a great institution (despite the best efforts of governments...)