Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 08 Cecil Parkinson
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…]
Treason
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 07 Lords Lambton and Jellicoe
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…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 06 Lord Boothby
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…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 05 John Vassall
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…]
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – Part 9 Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, these days better known as Baron Mandelson, has had to resign 3 times from official positions. A devious snake of a man one hopes he is finally out of our sight. He [more…]
America
Starmer the Unready
Much to the world’s delight, well who doesn’t like to laugh at the discomfort of other countries, we are highly embarrassed by the state of our Navy. This has all come about because of our [more…]
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – Part 8 Ron Davies
In 1998 poor old Ron Davies was held to ridicule. In 1983 he was elected to represent Caerphilly in the House of Shame. He was appointed Secretary of State for Wales in Satan Blair’s cabinet [more…]
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – Part 7 Harold Wilson
We need to take a quick look at Harold Wilson’s 1976 Prime Minister’s Resignation Honours. This was known as the Lavender List allegedly because Lady Falkender had written the draft on lavender coloured paper. How [more…]
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – Part 6 Will Owen
William James Owen formerly a miner and latterly a Labour MP was tried for spying for the Czechs, it’s amazing how often Czech Intelligence’s name crops up when politicians are accused of spying. Better known [more…]