The Prime Minister and sometime member of Lambeth Borough Council. His biography on Wikipedia is at [1]. See also John Reveley Major.
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| - The Prime Minister and sometime member of Lambeth Borough Council. His biography on Wikipedia is at [1]. See also John Reveley Major.
- Known for his beady-eyed stare and the many and varied (some would say garish) shades of grey he wore, Prime Minister Major was often thought to be the reincarnation of Gladstone but with more of a twinkle in his eye. He is regarded to be one of the greatest leaders Britain has ever had, although sadly only by himself. He re-discovered peas in 1990 and gave rise to more jokes about them than any other leader. He has never been mistaken for Clint Eastwood, but has been mistaken for exciting things like wallpaper, BBC Radio 4, and Belgium.
- John Major was formerly Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He entered office on 28 November 1990 and left office on 2 May 1997. He was a member of the Conservative party. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
- In the wake of the ousting of Margaret Thatcher, John Major took charge of the Conservative party and its rapidly declining popularity. He managed to get a surprise win in the 1992 general election - popularly attributed to him giving a speech on a literal soapbox - before losing the next one in 1997. He is usually thought of as the man who filled space between Thatcher and Blair. Caricatures tended to depict him as a rather boring, grey little man, an image not particularly helped by his large glasses, tendency to dress in grey and his general tendency to come across as being rather dull.
- John Major (born March 29, 1943) was a British politician who lived during the 20th and 21st centuries. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from November 28, 1990 to May 2, 1997. On September 17, 1992, Major was informed of the apparent death of the American President after the Augment Council's nuclear missile hit Washington, DC. Major watched footage of the destruction taken in Virginia on the BBC television network. (TOS - Khan comic: "Issue 2") In the comic, Major isn't named, and while the character only appears from behind, it looks like Major.
- When he first came in the cabinet in Series 10, he was wearing a leopard-print jacket, with white gloves, doing some stuff, in a circus fashion. Every time he appears, he said to the Cabinet, "My father was in the circus, you know." The cabinet replies, "We know!" Major was portrayed as a very dull, boring man. At one point the puppet was painted grey to further emphasize his boringness. File:John-Major's original design.jpg File:ImagesGZ1GFEMN.jpg File:John and Norma Major.jpg
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| - The Prime Minister and sometime member of Lambeth Borough Council. His biography on Wikipedia is at [1]. See also John Reveley Major.
- When he first came in the cabinet in Series 10, he was wearing a leopard-print jacket, with white gloves, doing some stuff, in a circus fashion. Every time he appears, he said to the Cabinet, "My father was in the circus, you know." The cabinet replies, "We know!" Major was portrayed as a very dull, boring man. At one point the puppet was painted grey to further emphasize his boringness. The makers of Spitting Image had a lot of troubles with Major, because he wasn't such a inspiring character to work with, compared with the previous Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Because of this, they made Thatcher's puppet reappear in the show as the person who really controlled Major. At a certain point they even invented an affair between Major and Virginia Bottomley to make Major more interesting in the show (Years later it turned out that John Major did have an affair in those years, but with Edwina Currie.) The most famous sketch with Major featured him and his wife eating peas, while having an incredibly boring conversation. This skit became some infamous that whenever the real Major speeched in the House of Parliament, the Opposition whispered the word "peas" and "more peas, dear?", whenever he started talking. File:John-Major's original design.jpg File:ImagesGZ1GFEMN.jpg File:John and Norma Major.jpg
- Known for his beady-eyed stare and the many and varied (some would say garish) shades of grey he wore, Prime Minister Major was often thought to be the reincarnation of Gladstone but with more of a twinkle in his eye. He is regarded to be one of the greatest leaders Britain has ever had, although sadly only by himself. He re-discovered peas in 1990 and gave rise to more jokes about them than any other leader. He has never been mistaken for Clint Eastwood, but has been mistaken for exciting things like wallpaper, BBC Radio 4, and Belgium.
- John Major was formerly Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He entered office on 28 November 1990 and left office on 2 May 1997. He was a member of the Conservative party. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
- John Major (born March 29, 1943) was a British politician who lived during the 20th and 21st centuries. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from November 28, 1990 to May 2, 1997. On September 17, 1992, Major was informed of the apparent death of the American President after the Augment Council's nuclear missile hit Washington, DC. Major watched footage of the destruction taken in Virginia on the BBC television network. (TOS - Khan comic: "Issue 2") In the comic, Major isn't named, and while the character only appears from behind, it looks like Major. While in London on November 5, 1992, Roberta Lincoln saw an effigy of Major being burned in commemoration of Guy Fawkes' Night. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)
- In the wake of the ousting of Margaret Thatcher, John Major took charge of the Conservative party and its rapidly declining popularity. He managed to get a surprise win in the 1992 general election - popularly attributed to him giving a speech on a literal soapbox - before losing the next one in 1997. He is usually thought of as the man who filled space between Thatcher and Blair. Caricatures tended to depict him as a rather boring, grey little man, an image not particularly helped by his large glasses, tendency to dress in grey and his general tendency to come across as being rather dull. In all fairness, John Major is not the total waste of space he is often depicted as. While he did preside over Black Wednesday, the whole system that led to that was arranged before he became Prime Minister. Also, while Tony Blair took the credit for the Good Friday Agreement, it was Major who did most of the groundwork. More recently, some people have taken to claiming that he was actually a very good Prime Minister who ran the economy well, but was so spectacularly incompetent when it came to PR and controlling his own party that he condemned himself to a needless defeat at the hands of Blair. He is also one of the few people to have held three of the Four Great Offices of state, Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, the fourth, which he did not hold, being Home Secretary. John Major's father was a circus acrobat. Many jokes were made about Major being the only boy to ever run away from the circus to become an accountant. Like many politicians, had an embarrassing sibling: in this case his brother Terry Major-Ball, who famously ran a company that made garden gnomes. In 2002 a revelation broke out that he had had an adulterous affair with minister Edwina Currie; this was greeted with universal incredulity by the British media, as they couldn't conceive of him doing something so interesting. But then Major was perhaps the only PM history who managed to make being attacked in Ten Downing Street by the IRA with mortar bombs from a nearby rooftop 'unmemorable'.
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