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Titolo: 'I may have kicked him a bit': Norman Tebbit admits losing temper over Chinese New Year dragon

quando il conflitto con la Cina viene portato alle estreme conseguenze... 
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253066/Norman-Tebbit-attacks-child-dressed-dragon-Chinese-New-Year.html
'I may have kicked him a bit': Norman Tebbit admits losing temper over 
Chinese New Year dragon
By Andrew Levy
Last updated at 7:03 PM on 23rd February 2010
As Margaret Thatcher's most loyal attack dog, Norman Tebbit became renowned 
for savaging political enemies.
And years after he was last at the forefront of British politics, it seems 
he has lost none of his old fighting spirit.
The 77-year-old was so upset by the noise caused by a Chinese New Year 
celebration near his home that he ran 100 yards down the street, grabbed a 
drum that someone was banging, and planted a kick on the backside of a 
dancing dragon - without realising a boy was inside.
Restaurant owner Patrick Chung, who organised the street celebration in Bury 
St Edmunds, Suffolk, said: 'A drum was being beaten outside my restaurant as 
part of Chinese New Year but Lord Tebbit arrived and stopped the drummer. He 
probably did not realise what was going on.
'He did kick the dragon. There was a child inside the dragon costume and he 
was kicking the dragon's bottom.
'He ran after the dragon and kicked it. The child was upset. He did not know 
what was happening.'
Another witness told the Daily Mirror: 'This old man came running towards 
the dragon on the street parade. He grabbed the drum and cymbal being played 
and then started violently kicking the dragon itself.
'Inside the costume was an adult at the front wearing a dragon mask and a 
child at the rear. Lord Tebbit was kicking the rear. He seemed upset about 
the noise.'
The outdoor celebration has been staged in the historic market town for more 
than 20 years but Lord Tebbit only moved to the area recently and was 
unaware of the tradition.
He admitted intervening in the party but said he and his wife Margaret, 75, 
had been surprised at the level of noise that travelled through the thick 
walls of their �840,000 Georgian house on Tuesday evening last week.
'I don't think my reaction was extreme at all. I placed my hand on the drum 
so that I could diminish the noise and asked the drummer what was going on 
and got a rap on the knuckles for my pain,' he said.
'I was then barged by the dragon. I barged it back and might have done 
something like kick it. I wasn't sure how to deal with it. I've never been 
barged by a dragon before.'
Asked whether he had anything to say to his young 'victim', he replied in 
typically defiant form: 'He should get himself promoted to the front of the 
dragon.'
Mr Chung, a local Tory councillor, visited the peer the day after the 
incident and received an apology.
He said: 'I said his actions were upsetting. He apologised. He only then 
understood what he had done.'
Lord Tebbit, who once said immigrants arriving in the UK should adopt our 
culture, said of the meeting: 'I pulled his leg a bit, saying when you're an 
immigrant coming to a new place you should really fall in with local customs 
and since they celebrate Chinese New Year, I guess I should go along with 
that.
'But I told him "There's a problem for you - there'll be a battalion of 
Morris Dancers outside your house on May Day".'
Lord Tebbit was nicknamed the Chingford Skinhead, after his former north 
London constituency, for his uncompromising attacks on political opponents.
He was also once described as a 'semi house-trained pole cat' and portrayed 
as a leather-clad 'bovverboy' on satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.
Lord Tebbit became one of Mrs Thatcher's most loyal ministers after she was 
elected in 1979, and served in various roles, including Employment Secretary 
and Trade and Industry Secretary.
In 1984, his wife Margaret was left wheelchair-bound and he was injured in 
the IRA bombing of the Brighton Grand Hotel during the Tory conference. He 
stepped down as an MP in 1992.
The couple moved from their former home in Manning Heath, West Sussex, to 
Bury St Edmunds last year because they wanted to live in the pretty town 
centre.
In November, Lord Tebbit apologised to a local pub owner after piling empty 
beer and wine bottles he found outside his house on to the business's window 
ledge. It later emerged the bottles had probably come from a supermarket.
Asked whether the town had failed to live up to his expectations, he said: 
'You get the odd drunk and the police don't do anything but it's not too 
bad.' 

 Am.
quella del televideo ancora non l'ho capita. Io posto le notizie del 
televideo perch� sul sito del televideo faccio prima a trovare quelle che mi 
interessa mettere in evidenza. Solitamente le trovo gi� tutte li e non devo 
andare a cercare altrove. Dammi una ragione seria per non postare pi� 
notizie dal televideo e forse ci rifletter� sopra... :-) 

 quando il conflitto con la Cina viene portato alle estreme conseguenze...
Sono passati, fortunatamente, i tempi nei quali un lord poteva
prendere a calci in culo i passanti impunemente.
PP

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non sai leggere fra le righe, � evidente il tuo pregiudizio di fondo :-D 

 è evidente il tuo pregiudizio di fondo :-D
Sono un noto anglofobo.
PP

PP
non elabori abbastanza :-)) 

 al suo programma militare, mentre era esattamente il contrario.
secondo me c'� un equivoco di fondo nel senso che, in quel caso, 'pu�' 
voleva dire 'essere nella capacit� di'...bastava leggere il testo della 
notizia per fugare ogni dubbio. Sinceramente non mi ero posto il problema a 
questo livello. Comunque il Televideo ha come fonte principale l'Ansa, per� 
a me piace perch� � sintetico e abbastanza completo come numero di notizie 
contenute, sicuramente fra i pi� completi media italiani dato che aggiorna 
le pagine minuto per minuto.