Apr 16, 2016
In the category of splendid insults
“He died in France in 1978, never having returned to Britain or having shown the slightest inclination to be other than an odious, oily-haired Tory wanker.”
From The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain, by Bill Bryson (2015).
NB: The person referred to is Ernest Marples, British transport secretary under Harold Macmillan in the 1960s.