QUIZ – Tory or Victorian Villain? Can you tell the difference?
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Real-Life Tory or Fictional Victorian Villain?
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Take this quiz to find out if you can tell the difference between a real-life, dastardly, moustache-twirling, comic-book Tory and a fictional villain from a Victorian novel:
After you’ve finished, scroll down for more detailed information about the answers:
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1) “People have too much knowledge already: the more education people get the more difficult they are to manage”
– Tory MP when the Public Libraries Bill was first introduced to the House of Commons in 1849
2) “The homeless are what you step over when you come out of the opera.”
– Sir George Young – currently Tory Chief Whip – in 1990
3) “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”
– Ebenezer Scrooge – talking about the poor – in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
4) “No…
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