“Wankers and whingers.”

— Neil Kinnock

Attributed to Kinnock by Stuart Weir, "We stopped Boadicea's chariot", New Statesman 27 November 1998, p. 33.
Kinnock's private description of Charter 88 at the time of their launch. Note that Kinnock subsequently signed the Charter.
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British politician 1942

Tony Banks (1942–2006) British politician

An MP who took no prisoners, The Daily Telegraph, 2006-01-09 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/09/nbanks109.xml, http://www.geocities.com/Axiom43/insults.html
on former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher again.

“Crap,' said Janet. 'He was a whinger and he wrote it down. That's not poetry.”

Helen Garner book Cosmo Cosmolino

Page 78.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

“Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

“When the oil of the lamp is used up the wanker shall light his own way to salvation.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002)

“What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

Acceptance speech at the MTV Europe Music Awards, referring to French nuclear testing in Pacific (1995)

“There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954) 12th President of Turkey from 2014

Boris Johnson wins The Spectator’s President Erdogan Offensive Poetry competition, 18 May 2016. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/boris-johnson-wins-the-spectators-president-erdogan-offensive-poetry-competition/
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“There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

“So I say to those people. And God knows we have some All-Ireland champions here in Castlebar. I don't mean Castlebar Mitchels, I mean the whingers that I hear every week.”

Enda Kenny (1951) Irish Fine Gael politician and Taoiseach

Expressing his thoughts on his own constituents at a campaign rally in Castlebar.
Enda Kenny hits out at ‘All Ireland champion whingers’ in his constituency of Castlebar http://www.thejournal.ie/enda-kenny-voters-whingers-hometown-2615710-Feb2016/ TheJournal.ie, 2016-02-21
FG canvassers called me a 'whinger' - gran (72) http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2016/fg-canvassers-called-me-a-whinger-gran-72-34480460.html, Irish Independent, 2016-02-24
2010s

“They'll drop a cage into the water, and the shark'll be. like, "What you doin' down 'ere? What you fuckin' doin' down 'ere?" And they'll get a bit of meat on a stick and go "Oy! Wanker! Bleurgh!" And they’ll go "Oh, is that for me?" [pretends to shove meat in shark’s mouth] "You fuckin’…"”

Lee Evans (1964) English stand-up comedian and actor

Live from the West End (1995)

“Ah hate cunts like that. Cunts like Begbie. Cunts that are intae basebaw-batting every fucker that's different; pakis, poofs, n what huv ye. Fuckin failures in a country ay failures. It's nae good blamin it oan the English fir colonising us. Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? The lowest of the fuckin low, tha's what, the scum of the earth. The most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat intae creation. Ah don't hate the English. They just git oan wi the shite thuv goat. Ah hate the Scots.”

Irvine Welsh book Trainspotting

Renton, "Relapsing: The Glass" (Chapter 2, Story 2).
Trainspotting (1993)

“Wankers and whingers.”

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