Sir Bernard Ingham dead

I saw him live when he came to address my class at college.

Quite a thing to see some one so close a regime that I so reviled
 
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Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary, dies aged 90

Sir Bernard served as Mrs Thatcher's chief press secretary from 1979 to 1990, and was knighted in her resignation honour
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He sparked outrage by labelling Liverpool fans “tanked up yobs” following the Hillsborough disaster, a comment he refused to apologise for.

In a 1996 letter replying to Liverpool fan Graham Skinner - whose friend had died in the disaster - Sir Bernard said Liverpool should “shut up about Hillsborough”.

And in 2013 he was scathing about Northern voters who didn't vote Tory, stating: “They’re thick as two planks, aren’t they?”

He also angered Scottish nationalists by branding them "greedy as sin", stating: "The only thing that fuelled nationalism was the smell of oil and money in oil."
 
And come to that, this was your very first post, so how would you know the nature of this place at all? Unless.....shirley not.....you're an old poster under a new name??
 
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