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Leon Brittan Dead

Eddie BadgerEddie Badger Posts: 6,005
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Breaking news on the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30938755
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    butterworthbutterworth Posts: 17,877
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    Let the innuendo and accusations begin....

    (Actually, it's probably the innuendo that killed him)
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    FilliAFilliA Posts: 864
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    I don't know whether to hope that this turns into a Jimmy Saville, to give any victims a voice, or that everything I have heard from a wide variety of sources(Guardian journalust/minicab driver/poster on here etc) for many years, turns out to be slander. If he did half the things he was accused of he was a wicked evil man.
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    Ethel_FredEthel_Fred Posts: 34,127
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    Bugger me
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    Fairyprincess0Fairyprincess0 Posts: 30,087
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    utter, utter bastard.....
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    skp20040skp20040 Posts: 66,874
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    Convenient timing I am sure but he had been battling cancer for a long while so no great surprise or conspiracy theory to anyone surely. Lets just hope this does not mean that now all the blame is laid at his door and his door alone
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    DianaFireDianaFire Posts: 12,711
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    This should be interesting.
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    ElectraElectra Posts: 55,660
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    skp20040 wrote: »
    Convenient timing I am sure but he had been battling cancer for a long while so no great surprise or conspiracy theory to anyone surely. Lets just hope this does not mean that now all the blame is laid at his door and his door alone

    Good point. What are the chances, eh? ;-)
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    Jambo_cJambo_c Posts: 4,672
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    Totally read this as Leon Britton and was a bit shocked but now I've seen who it actually is I've no idea as I don't really do politics.
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    MikeJWMikeJW Posts: 3,948
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    skp20040 wrote: »
    Lets just hope this does not mean that now all the blame is laid at his door and his door alone
    There will be an attempt to do that, now. I expect we'll see big stories on this very quickly.
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    Pisces CloudPisces Cloud Posts: 30,239
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    Quite sad if the allegations turn out to be true and so victims being cheated out of justice, yet again.
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    ShrikeShrike Posts: 16,609
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    Jambo_c wrote: »
    Totally read this as Leon Britton and was a bit shocked but now I've seen who it actually is I've no idea as I don't really do politics.

    Home secretary back in the '80s during the miners strike. Recently in the news as a dossier on "establishment" pedophiles was handed to him at the time which subsequently went missing.
    So it could be that he was well in with this alleged ring, or it maybe dirty tricks due to
    1. Him being a high flying Jewish politician
    2. Him rising very fast in the Tory ranks
    3. Him blaming MI6 for the Yvonne Fletcher murder
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    KennedyCKennedyC Posts: 1,289
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    I think some of the posters on this thread should carefully consider what they are saying about this man. You are ruining the name of a man who has had no charges ever placed against him. Whatever rumours you may have heard they are just gossip until some evidence is presented.
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    skp20040skp20040 Posts: 66,874
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    MikeJW wrote: »
    There will be an attempt to do that, now. I expect we'll see big stories on this very quickly.

    I do hope that the media though are sensible and careful, he may have been involved in a cover up that is yet to be proved , but if there are those still living that are the subject of a police investigation and possible charges the last thing we want is the media ruining any trial that could take place for the sake of headlines now.
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    FaustFaust Posts: 8,985
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    Jambo_c wrote: »
    Totally read this as Leon Britton and was a bit shocked but now I've seen who it actually is I've no idea as I don't really do politics.

    How can you say you don't do politics, it's like saying I'm not alive. :confused:
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    trevgotrevgo Posts: 28,241
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    KennedyC wrote: »
    I think some of the posters on this thread should carefully consider what they are saying about this man. You are ruining the name of a man who has had no charges ever placed against him. Whatever rumours you may have heard they are just gossip until some evidence is presented.

    True, but he had the dossier then couldn't "recall" what happened to it.

    If he turns out not to have been at the very centre of all this I will be very surprised. Always thought he was as slimy as can be.
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    MagicCoppeliaMagicCoppelia Posts: 21,133
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    Wiki says the DJ Mark Ronson was his cousin!. How strange.
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    terry45terry45 Posts: 2,876
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    Cameron will have to choose his words very carefully if he pays any tribute.
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    donovan5donovan5 Posts: 1,023
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    Dan Fortesque wrote: »
    Quite sad if the allegations turn out to be true and so victims being cheated out of justice, yet again.
    The victims will never get justice,if Brittan knew anything then his boss would of almost certainly known something and there is not a chance in hell that our establishment will let any of it stain her.
    This will just keep getting kicked further away until "nothing" can be proven or a couple of lowly sacrifices are made.
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    QT 3.14QT 3.14 Posts: 1,771
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    Wonder if they'll find a slightly mouse bitten dossier under his floorboards with his own name scribbled out with a marker pen? Will Jim Hood's comments during the miner's strike debate be found to be true?
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    juliancarswelljuliancarswell Posts: 8,896
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    QT 3.14 wrote: »
    Wonder if they'll find a slightly mouse bitten dossier under his floorboards with his own name scribbled out with a marker pen? Will Jim Hood's comments during the miner's strike debate be found to be true?

    Just remind us what he said.
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    QT 3.14QT 3.14 Posts: 1,771
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    juliancarswell wrote: »
    Just remind us what he said.

    It's all in Hansard.

    http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141028/debtext/141028-0003.htm

    Scroll down to 28 Oct 2014 : Column 255
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    BunionsBunions Posts: 15,024
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    QT 3.14 wrote: »
    It's all in Hansard.

    http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141028/debtext/141028-0003.htm

    Scroll down to 28 Oct 2014 : Column 255
    Wish I could say that I'm shocked and horrified but I'm not...............not one little bit.

    I'm sure I'm not the only one who has ALWAYS thought there was something decidedly creepy and unsavoury-looking about that man.

    There, I've said it.
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    TakaeTakae Posts: 13,555
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    My late grandfather used to refer him as 'Slippery Brit'.
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    flowerpowaflowerpowa Posts: 24,386
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    Fairyprincess0 wrote: »
    utter, utter bastard.....

    You knew him?
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    ElyanElyan Posts: 8,781
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    QT 3.14 wrote: »
    It's all in Hansard.

    http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141028/debtext/141028-0003.htm

    Scroll down to 28 Oct 2014 : Column 255

    So the miners from Britain were saying Brittan had minors?
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