Leon Brittan has died

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 68,508
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    AndyCopen wrote: »
    I see the socialists are out in force, dancing on people's graves again
    I do hope you mean literally. I want pictures.
    BanglaRoad wrote: »
    Oh great! A random stranger on DS telling me what I know and don't know

    ...About absolutely every topic, it would appear.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,495
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    This is a rerun of Savile...All the condolences and what a great man etc....and then.....
  • AndyCopenAndyCopen Posts: 2,213
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    BanglaRoad wrote: »
    Shocking behaviour isn't it? Would be as bad as somebody regularly posting on here making horrible comments about the dead father of Ed Miliband
    OH wait................there is one person who does that

    I'm terribly sorry I called Marxist Ralph Milliband a Marxist.
  • alfamalealfamale Posts: 10,309
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    Leon Brittan has died

    ...which means that he cannot now be interviewed by the Metropolitan Police as either a potential witness to events or as a criminal suspect.

    Remember Guinness top-bloke Ernest Saunders making a remarkable recovery from dementia. I hope a year or so from now Leon Brittan doesn't make a remarkable recovery from death
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 13
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    That jpeg mentions an incident written about in Paul Foot's book. I presume it's this one

    The following passage comes from Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 394-395.



    I've nae doubt that there would be those in MI5 who didnae like Leon Brittan because of his background, but by the same token there's generally nae smoke w\oot fire a lot of the time.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 13
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    to be clear,i despise anyone who served in Thatchers cabinet but i'm pretty sure he was the victim of a smear campaign by his enemies in MI5.



    A lot of the accusations date fae before his time in Government, and he was certainly no a well liked minister for his handling of the miner's strike. The miners knew about the allegations aimed towards him and had less respect for him as a result.

    It just seems that no matter what he did, either in his professional or personal life, he couldnae do anything much w\oot running into trouble with miners.
  • nattoyakinattoyaki Posts: 7,080
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    Blockz99 wrote: »
    Is this a story I missed ?

    A lot of stories the last few years about a 'senior member of Mrs Thatcher's government who cannot be named' can probably now be safely reprinted with his name. Whether they will or not remains to be seen. If not, ask yourself 'why?'.

    There was one about an MP caught at customs with some videotapes...
    This is a rerun of Savile...All the condolences and what a great man etc....and then.....

    Rantzen - Savile

    Clegg - Cyril Smith

    Hague - Brittan?
  • Logan FiveLogan Five Posts: 627
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    This is a rerun of Savile...All the condolences and what a great man etc....and then.....

    This. Quoted for the truth.
  • nobodyherenobodyhere Posts: 1,313
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    Aneechik wrote: »
    Now the revelations will come out.

    Not so sure,

    While sweeping the story/allegations under the carpet alot of work has also gone into burying the paper trail, i.e. relevent official documents being locked away for decades to come (to protect those implicated younger than LB, perhaps even still working)
  • StaunchyStaunchy Posts: 10,904
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    This is fun, pages of comments by people who reckon what the man knew and others who don't seem to know what cancer is.
  • Pisces CloudPisces Cloud Posts: 30,239
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    to be clear,i despise anyone who served in Thatchers cabinet but i'm pretty sure he was the victim of a smear campaign by his enemies in MI5.

    Wasn't he allegedly caught on camera attending parties organised by Sidney Cooke? It will be interesting to learn if those videos/pictures still exist.
  • StaunchyStaunchy Posts: 10,904
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    Wasn't he allegedly caught on camera attending parties organised by Sydney Cooke? It will be interesting to learn if those videos/pictures still exist.

    Oh so close...
    You start off with "allegedly" then finish with, if they still exist.

    If videos/photos don't surface will you consider that they never existed, or will them not surfacing be proof in your eyes of something or other?
  • Pisces CloudPisces Cloud Posts: 30,239
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    Staunchy wrote: »
    Oh so close...
    You start off with "allegedly" then finish with, if they still exist.

    If videos/photos don't surface will you consider that they never existed, or will them not surfacing be proof in your eyes of something or other?

    According to this the police do have some. I'd actually forgot about that. I was talking about the ones in which the police supposedly took during their surveillance of Cooke back in the 80s.

    https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/was-islington-child-brothel-covered-up-in-1986/
  • MattNMattN Posts: 2,534
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    nattoyaki wrote: »
    A lot of stories the last few years about a 'senior member of Mrs Thatcher's government who cannot be named' can probably now be safely reprinted with his name. Whether they will or not remains to be seen. If not, ask yourself 'why?'.

    There was one about an MP caught at customs with some videotapes...



    Rantzen - Savile

    Clegg - Cyril Smith

    Hague - Brittan?

    Brittan was close to clegg too
  • StaunchyStaunchy Posts: 10,904
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    According to this the police do have some. I'd actually forgot about that. I was talking about the ones in which the police supposedly took during their surveillance of Cooke back in the 80s.

    https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/was-islington-child-brothel-covered-up-in-1986/
    When you use expressions like "according to this" and "supposedly took" you understand why I'm skeptical?
  • Pisces CloudPisces Cloud Posts: 30,239
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    Staunchy wrote: »
    When you use expressions like "according to this" and "supposedly took" you understand why I'm skeptical?

    If that makes you feel happier then carry on by all means.
  • StaunchyStaunchy Posts: 10,904
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    If that makes you feel happier then carry on by all means.

    I'm just reminded of those stories of satanic child abuse that were all the rage a few years ago which never actually happened.
  • Syntax ErrorSyntax Error Posts: 27,803
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    AndyCopen wrote: »
    I see the socialists are out in force, dancing on people's graves again

    Posts like this always crop up when politicians shuffle of this mortal coil.

    I remember when Thatcher died, some people were nasty.

    I remember when Benn died, some people were nasty too.

    The fact is, nasty people can be Right or Left wing; it's just a human thing, not a political thing.
  • catsittercatsitter Posts: 4,238
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    I was in no way a fan of Leon Brittan but I was going to say, I found the report on BBC's ten o'clock news last night very odd as there was hardly anything about his life and career but mostly focussing on an unproven allegation about a file being given to him, but now I see it is the same on here, and presumably everywhere else on the internet and in the media.
  • Syntax ErrorSyntax Error Posts: 27,803
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    catsitter wrote: »
    I was in no way a fan of Leon Brittan but I was going to say, I found the report on BBC's ten o'clock news last night very odd as there was hardly anything about his life and career but mostly focussing on an unproven allegation about a file being given to him, but now I see it is the same on here, and presumably everywhere else on the internet and in the media.

    Don't forget the dossier that he claimed never to have seen, then later admitted to losing in respect of the child abuse issue that is going on currently.

    This might have something to do with the reason why his passing was reported the way it was
  • TCD1975TCD1975 Posts: 3,039
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    catsitter wrote: »
    mostly focussing on an unproven allegation about a file being given to him.

    That isn't an unproven allegation ... it's 100% factual.

    What is unproven is that there was a Westminster paedophile ring in the 80s ... and one of the main problems is that it's hard to prove something when files relating to the allegation go missing.
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    Has the dossier been found yet?
  • TCD1975TCD1975 Posts: 3,039
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    Has the dossier been found yet?

    No, and it probably never will be found now.
  • skp20040skp20040 Posts: 66,874
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    Has the dossier been found yet?

    They go on about this dossier which is of course important but why no mention of the one handed to the DPP himself three months before the one handed to Leon Brittan, and surely Dickens wife who says she burned the third copy after Dickens died as it had so much sensitive information in it can recall some of what was in there.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,495
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    It seems LB did not want to implicate any of his colleagues so the dossier was conveniently lost.

    Therefore he is just as guilty as the people named in the dossier - Not as though he had just misplaced a birthday card to an elderly Aunt or something - He obviously knew he had dynamite.
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