I recall the associated kerfulffle but I never really took much interest in this story. The protagonists are the dog strangler (aka Michael Heseltine), Leon Brittan and Margaret Thatcher. At stake was the future of [more…]
The Jeffrey Archer affair was rather an odd one and it has been alleged that he took the rap while covering up for a colleague. He was an MP, left and wrote best selling books [more…]
So. Just to be (in the words of 2TierKeir) absolutely, crystal, clear……….. UsLabour has finally abandoned any pretense about “Stopping the Boats” or “Smashing the Gangs”. Such ‘policies’ have now been consigned to the spider infested, deep [more…]
One of Maggie’s blue eyed boys. Yet again another sex scandal. Cecil was a cad. He was the Tory MP for Hertsmere from 1979 to 1992, then they gave him the ermine and he moved [more…]
To quote a certain newt-fancier named Leninspart “And I’ll tell you another PM who used to be a provincial mayor”. This of course refers to the much maligned Neville Chamberlain who had been Mayor of [more…]
Two ministers in Ted Heath’s government who featured in sex and drugs scandals. If only they had known what Ted was alleged to be up to. This was exposed by the News of the World [more…]
Robert Boothby, often known as Bob, later elevated to Baron Boothby in 1958, was a Tory politician and not a particularly successful one but I remember him always being on political programs in the 1960s [more…]
Purists will argue that John Vassall was nothing to do with the Tories and in a sense they are right. John Vassall was a junior civil servant who spied for the Russians between 1954 and [more…]
Watching Bodybags making his first speech at Conference as leader I was reminded of a famous quote attributed to George Burns. “Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”. [more…]
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