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The Leopard
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Report mememe • January 25, 2016 4:08 PM GMT
Glowing reports ...

family say devoted husband etc

Sarah Keays?? ...

I don't think Mrs mememe would call me devoted if I had done what he did.

Undoubted he will be lionised in the Press & TV.

Politicians, eh!
Report kenny mann • January 25, 2016 4:13 PM GMT
Came across very well on HIGNFY

RIP.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • January 25, 2016 4:35 PM GMT
A walking oil slick. Bob Monkhouse without the wit, charm, talent, intelligence, charisma or popularity.
Report mememe • January 25, 2016 4:36 PM GMT
there was a grand joke going round at the time ... something about Cecil running up the stairs with his member rattling the spindles in the bannister as he made his way to her bedroom and her calling "Cecil, is that you?" but for the life of me I can't remember the joke!

But yes Leopard, I think the rumours were well founded.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • January 25, 2016 4:38 PM GMT
Cecil? Oh sorry. I thought this was the David Bowie thread.
Report mememe • January 25, 2016 4:39 PM GMT
Facts ... wot you doing here?

Get back to the asylum seekers, FFS, and tend to their needs.

You've already upset me once today and I don't want to see your face on any thread that I post on.

I may relent tomorrow.
Report mememe • January 25, 2016 4:49 PM GMT
Facts,

I have the impression that you are a sad left wing loser, maybe work in Public Sector in a low grade "job" or more likely on benefits and are bitter and resent anybody who makes a success of their life.

Don't forget to feed the asylum boys, before you go out scowling at people who look successful.
Report mememe • January 25, 2016 4:51 PM GMT
Facts...
your "witty" riposte to me has gone from this thread.

Even the moderator thinks you're a loser.
Report Facts • January 25, 2016 4:51 PM GMT
Lol. You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried LaughLaugh

You don't want to believe everything  you see on an Internet chat forum . Hth  !
Report Capt__F • January 25, 2016 4:55 PM GMT
Jeff
Report Facts • January 25, 2016 4:57 PM GMT
And they 've removed the nod to Elvis Costello's famous lyrics.

Dear oh dear.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • January 25, 2016 4:57 PM GMT
Thrown a wobbly
Report The Leopard • January 25, 2016 5:01 PM GMT
Guardian :

Parkinson admitted his affair to the prime minister – who was usually more indulgent of the peccadilloes of her colleagues, particularly those she liked, than of the public at large – and to close colleagues. They gave him their support when the story emerged in Private Eye, just as the party’s annual conference convened, with representatives, MPs, ministers and journalists unusually accessible to each other in the bars and corridors of the Imperial hotel, which allowed for the undignified spectacle of Parkinson being pursued up the stairs to his room, followed by a raucous crowd (of which I was a member) shouting questions at his retreating back.

Despite a disreputable Tory attempt to smear Keays as a promiscuous golddigger, the outcome was inevitable and Parkinson had to resign from the party chairmanship and ministerial office and return unwillingly and with little grace to the backbenches. He did indeed make grudging financial provision for Keays, who retreated to the West Country, to raise their daughter, Flora, born the following January, single-handedly. Parkinson never spoke to Keays again, nor saw the child, nor registered his paternity by expressing any interest in her life whatsoever.

Indeed he successfully sought an injunction to prevent her being identified in any way in the media, unable even to appear in school photographs, a precaution that he claimed was to protect her, but which many saw as little better than an attempt to limit the damage to himself and curtail the public’s memory of the affair. When it became known – once the injunction was lifted on the child’s 18th birthday – that Flora suffered from emotional and learning difficulties and had been ill for much of her childhood, Parkinson’s reputation suffered further damage. In the words of the commentator George Hill: “The fondness of one woman, the prime minister, and the enduring fury of another, his one-time mistress Sara Keays, so dominate public and political perceptions of Cecil Parkinson that he seems to exist only as a reflection of other people’s ambitions and emotions.”
Report ribero1 • January 25, 2016 6:20 PM GMT
He did a lot of work for a mate of mine after his political career ended as apparently he was in relative terms pretty skint,my mate used to laugh and say he was "skirt mad" and not fussy either!
Report xmoneyx • January 25, 2016 8:47 PM GMT
he wasnae a man for all that
Report xmoneyx • January 25, 2016 11:09 PM GMT
here's some news

me thinks an affair is 6 months


affair was 12 years--wtf


what a c@nt
Report EastofEden • January 26, 2016 8:31 PM GMT
rip
another good man gone...
Report Just Checking • January 26, 2016 8:41 PM GMT
The Guardian does a hatchet job on a Tory, well I never!
Report The Leopard • January 26, 2016 8:49 PM GMT
Prints the truth ......that's all it does.
Report Just Checking • January 26, 2016 9:01 PM GMT
Except when it doesn't like the truth, and doesn't.
Report iamajambo • January 26, 2016 10:18 PM GMT
Reunited in Hell with the Wicked Witch,if such a state exists.
Report Capt__F • January 26, 2016 11:22 PM GMT
Newham
Report akabula • January 27, 2016 12:09 AM GMT
Facts  • January 25, 2016 4:51 PM GMT 
You don't want to believe everything  you see on an Internet chat forum . Hth  !


Do you mean like when someone says they are going to take in immigrants?
Report Rockinron • January 27, 2016 9:02 AM GMT
Apart from Sarah Keays ..
weren't there rumours circulating at the time about him and Maggie not to mention Edwina Currie -
or was that John Major..Laugh
Report Facts • January 27, 2016 10:03 AM GMT

akabula    27 Jan 16 00:09 
Facts  • January 25, 2016 4:51 PM GMT 
You don't want to believe everything  you see on an Internet chat forum . Hth  !

Do you mean like when someone says they are going to take in immigrants?



Who knows ?
Report rob_dylan • January 27, 2016 10:22 AM GMT
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Facts  • January 25, 2016 4:51 PM GMT 
You don't want to believe everything  you see on an Internet chat forum . Hth  !

Do you mean like when someone says they are going to take in immigrants?



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