“Living proof that a pig's bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to Parliament”

— Tony Banks

"Tony Banks close to death after stroke" http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article337229.ece, The Independent (online edition), 8 January 2006.
on right-wing Conservative MP Terry Dicks

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British politician 1942–2006

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