Thatcher's Perverts...

[sandyRoe]

Sir Keith Joseph, Rhodes Boyson, and Leon Brittan, were all close colleagues of Thatcher. Time, as we know, has not been kind to their reputations.
Another was was clearly deemed, "one of us", was the late unlamented, Jimmy Savile.
Was Thatcher particularly unlucky in attracting such odious people or was it that high-powered jobs for Tories enhanced their sense of invulnerability so that they could continue to display the insolence of office?

[sandyRoe]

Havers, the Attorney General, is another who wouldn't have felt out of place among those first three. ^

[sandyRoe]

has my attempt to smear the Tories fallen on stony ground?

[ladybirder]

Mikey must have missed in sandy.

[tonyav]

I'm sure it was all just coincidental, sandy !.

[jno]

it is odd. There are doubtless strange people in all parties; I'm not sure why there seems to have been a bit of a cluster round the Iron Lady, though. Perhaps they were just drawn to the power exuded by a strong woman.

[tonyav]

Or sadomasochistic, jno.

[fiction-factory]

I'm not sure what the issues are about Rhodes Boysson and Keth Joseph or that anything of any substance has been pinned on Leon Brittain. If this is a thread about child exploitation then there are other names from Labour, Liberals and Tories that could be mentioned too, who were friends with Blair, Steel, Callaghan and Major

[Ric.ror]

Wasn't Ken Clarke in the cabinet of Thatcher too ;-/

[Peter Pedant]

all the menioned I think were in it from the beginning
that is her first cabinet

and everyone knows .... she was forced to keep on Edw Heath cabinet of intellects and it was only later she replaced them with handsome but useless yes-men

Edw heath.... hmm there was soething wrong with him I can tell you....

[fiction-factory]

Okay, I've just found an old Mail article from last year that says Barbara Castle was once given a list of names of around 50 (I think) MPs/politicians who were linked to sex rings/paedophilia and this list included Joesph, Rhodes Boyson and Brittan. I'm not sure whether there was any substance - let's hope the enquiry finds out. But maybe that list was drawn up at the time Thatcher was in power so it was too soon to include Blairites, Majorites, Brownites or Cameronites. I am sure the list included others such as Cyril Smith, Grenville Jenner and others from other parties too.
I have a feeling quite a few well known very senior politicians will eventually get named and there will be some shocks

[Ric.ror]

I wonder if Ken Clarke knows of the list

[sandyRoe]

He has connections with an international drug company that has brought misery and early deaths to millions.

[Ric.ror]

Who has?

[sandyRoe]

Clarke. Promotes the dubious pleasures of tobacco.

[Ric.ror]

I doubt that tobacco is his only vice ;-/

[tonyav]

He was / is deputy chairman with BAT.

You can do what you want but lay off my Brown suede shoes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13445976

[andy-hughes]

If - and so far it is if - there is any evidence linking these men to criminal activities, then I would be inclined to the latter view sandy.

I think the arrogance needed to be a Tory minister, coupled with the unassailable personal arrogance that flavoured all these people, meant that they really did believe they could behave as they wished, without consequences, because experience taught them that this was so.

[sandyRoe]

I'm sure I've read somewhere that brown suede shoes are an unmistakable sign of a louche character.

[Ric.ror]

Only one man can get away with suede shows of any colour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41FC2NoPn4A

[fiction-factory]

"Clarke. Promotes the dubious pleasures of tobacco."
That alone doesn't merit the term "pervert" though does it?