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Tributes to Norris
McWhirter CBE: IV |
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Rt Hon John Redwood
MP: |
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Norris McWhirter was a quite extraordinary
man. A brilliant sportsman, successful businessman, a man of great
energy and principle. For those of us who knew him through politics,
he will best be remembered for his courageous fight to maintain real
democracy in Britain. |
| Norris was never too busy to take up a cause. He
fought against abuses of power here in Britain and for the rights of Soviet
dissidents. He fought against the signing of the Maastricht Treaty and
against subliminal advertising. As the head of the National
Association for Freedom, he supported parents who were desperately trying to
keep grammar schools going and he took up the cases of workers who were
sacked because they refused to join a union. Norris richly deserved
the CBE awarded to him when Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. |
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Norris McWhirter was immensely good company -
always with a story to tell and a mine of information. |
| He died doing one of the things that he loved most in the
place he loved most: playing tennis at home. We should be grateful for
all that he achieved and thankful that he leaves his political legacy in The
Freedom Association. It will honour his memory by continuing to
protect the underdog and by campaigning to maintain proper democracy in the
country that he loved so much. |
| Christopher Luke: |
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On behalf of the Unionist Family in Northern
Ireland in general and former Ulster Unionist Leader Lord Molyneaux of
Killead KBE and former Ulster Unionist MPs Willie Ross and Willie Thompson
in particular, I should like to pay tribute to our late and much-missed
friend Norris McWhirter. |
| Norris was a true freedom fighter in every sense of the
word. His valiant efforts to secure personal freedom and individual
responsibility under the rule of law will be greatly missed. Like us,
he experienced the loss of members of his own family - his late and
much-missed brother Ross - at the hands of terrorists, and recognised that
the EU poses as much a threat to a free society as the enemies of liberty
and democracy in the IRA and UFF. |
| Our thoughts and prayers are with the McWhirter Family at
this sad time. May his memory inspire all of us to redouble our
efforts to secure the maintenance of our existing freedom and the
restoration of liberties which others have surrendered to our enemies. |
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