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Real-Life Tory or Fictional Victorian Villain?
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Take this quiz to find out if you can tell the difference between a real-life, dastardly, moustache-twirling, comic-book Tory and a fictional villain from a Victorian novel:
After you’ve finished, scroll down for more detailed information about the answers:
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1) “People have too much knowledge already: the more education people get the more difficult they are to manage”
– Tory MP when the Public Libraries Bill was first introduced to the House of Commons in 1849
2) “The homeless are what you step over when you come out of the opera.”
– Sir George Young – currently Tory Chief Whip – in 1990
3) “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”
– Ebenezer Scrooge – talking about the poor – in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
4) “No one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others but that is a function of capitalist markets”
– George Osborne – Chancellor of the Exchequer – in 2008
5) “I won’t claim the workhouses didn’t have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared”
– Former Tory MP Edwina Currie in 1986
6) “I can’t change my habits. I must have my comforts. I wasn’t brought up on porridge”
– George Osborne – the fictional character – in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair
7) “If you bed people of below-stairs class, they will go to the papers”
– Late Tory MP Alan Clark’s widow on his infidelities
8) “the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief …” “cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies…”
– Boris Johnson – Tory Mayor of London – in 2002
9) “I had the boy caned as an initiation ceremony and informed him that he was now a Highbury Grovian”
10) “I would guillotine them. These are children you can’t educate. It’s merely a matter of caring for them until they die”
– Tory deputy mayor Owen Lister on disabled children in 2005
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nivekd said:
Is Number 9 a typo/repeat or did Boyson consort with the Clarks?!
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Ralph T said:
I can’t help feeling after taking this quiz that perhaps history has judged fictional Victorian Villains somewhat harshly. I believe upon reflection that it will be less kind to the current crop of Tories.
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Tom Pride said:
A typo. Thanks for pointing it out. Fixed now.
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Strangely Perfect said:
Yeah. ( & & are duplicates). One was the caning question.
Good quiz. We need more.
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nivekd said:
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Keep up the splendid work. You help me through the day!
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Editor said:
Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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guy fawkes said:
If you replace the words “socialism with Capitalism” and the words “envy with greed” then the following quote by Winston Churchill would sum up the Tories.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of ENVY, it’s inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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guy fawkes said:
ps should have also changed the word EQUAL for the word UNEQUAL.
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manonclaphamomnibus (@DopeyJim) said:
I know tories are dragging us back to the kids-up-chimneys days, but I confess, I got a lot of these wrong. Put together like you have shows just how appalling they are, and, worse, how much we are sitting back and taking it!
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FinkFurst said:
Historians tend not to be in the business of judging fiction, though sometimes they write it! You may be right about how history will judge the current crop of Tories, but I suspect that it will judge the last lot of Tories (masquerading as New Labour) even more harshly, and quite rightly for their betrayal of what voters thought Labour stood for. At least this lot of Tories and their disingenuous Coalition puppets haven’t started any wars…… Yet!
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FinkFurst said:
Sadly, if you are a socialist in England you really don’t have anyone to vote for, just three different shades of Tory.
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FinkFurst said:
Maybe another quiz might be Tory, New Labour or LibDem… Can you tell the difference?
Does Russell Brand have a point?
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Tom Pride said:
FinkFurst – Hmm! Not a bad idea that.
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guy fawkes said:
If they repatriate civil and human rights laws, they could start a civil war.
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FinkFurst said:
I doubt that a civil war is likely, but serious civil unrest is a nightmare which constantly haunts all governments… as your namesake knew very well!
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guy fawkes said:
just a pity he didn’t succeed.
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FinkFurst said:
The fireworks industry might not agree with you!
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guy fawkes said:
FinkFurst
The anarchists would.
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