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The Vermin Club was an organisation of grassroots Conservative Party supporters in Britain in the late 1940s.

Vermin Club - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British Conservative Party grassroots organisation of the 1940s The Vermin Club was an organisation of grassroots Conservative Party supporters in Britain in the late 1940s . On the evening of 4 July 1948, Aneurin Bevan , the Labour Government 's Minister of Health, addressed the annual Labour rally for the North of England at Belle Vue, Manchester , and described Conservatives as "lower than vermin ". [ 1 ] Young Tories, disregarding the "lower than" part, took on the description with ironic self-deprecation and set

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