Cecil Parkinson Dead

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!

A walking oil slick. Bob Monkhouse without the wit, charm, talent, intelligence, charisma or popularity.

Cecil? Oh sorry. I thought this was the David Bowie thread.

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.

Lol. You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried

You don't want to believe everything  you see on an Internet chat forum . Hth  !

And they 've removed the nod to Elvis Costello's famous lyrics.

Dear oh dear.

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.”

he wasnae a man for all that

rip
another good man gone...

Prints the truth ......that's all it does.

Reunited in Hell with the Wicked Witch,if such a state exists.

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?

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 ?