Terry Dicks
Terence Patrick Dicks (17 March 1937 – 17 June 2020) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was MP for the constituency of Hayes and Harlington from 1983 to his retirement in 1997. He first ran in Bristol South in 1979, but lost to Labour's Michael Cocks.
Dicks called for the BBC soap opera EastEnders to be cancelled following a storyline involving a gay kiss between two men.[1]
Dicks was born with cerebral palsy and called himself in the House of Commons as a "spastic."[2] From 1999 until he retired in June 2009 Dicks was a member of Surrey County Council representing the town of Addlestone.
Dicks died on 17 June 2020 at the age of 83.[3]
References
- ↑ "Scrap EastEnders Call Over Gay Kiss". The Sun. 1989.
- ↑ "House of Commons Hansard", Column 544, 11 May 1994.
- ↑ Remembrance of departed colleagues