Leon Brittan

[Daffy6543]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30938755

Died aged 75 after long battle against cancer.

[Gromit]

Type Your Answer Here...Brittan was alleged to have taken out a super injunction - If he did, that dies with him, so I guess we will soon know.

[Gromit]

I would not be surprised if this goes the way of Saville. No sooner than the ink is dry on the gushing obituaries in the Times and Telegraph, then people who were restrained by injunctions and threats of libel will start to tell their stories. Then others will emerge to confirm the stories.
Then Theresa May be promise progress on an inquiry, but nothing will happen until the autumn.

[-Talbot-]

There does not appear to be many willing to wax lyrical over him.

'He was inteligent' seems to be the most popular eulogy.

[sandyRoe]

And meticulous with an eye for detail.

[-Talbot-]

Unlike me Sandy..................intelligent
lol.

[Farriercm]

Think the time has come now where we need to take a statement from a former PMs press secretary, he can not keep suffering from loss of memory.

[Ric.ror]

Lucky escape?

[ichkeria]

An eye for ... detail
Nicely put

[DTCwordfan]

Morning all - and, yes, it's dry out there, not a cloud in the sky at the moment. Good as to drying out here. Folk over this afternoon for 'tea.' Otherwise reasonably quiet other than a raid on the Temple of Mr Marks.

[mikey4444]

Some will find this next link interesting :::

https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/was-leon-brittan-a-paedophile/

(DTC...its nearly 24 hours, so I hope this is OK ! )

[Svejk]

^There's something wrong with you, imo.

[factor-fiction]

mikey- many of us are aware of similar sites talking about sexual preferences and importuning arrests of former PMs, or about the US president, but as these are not authoritatative sites I think it is pointless to post such links on here

[DTCwordfan]

excuse my wrong post there....

[DTCwordfan]

I would raise it as a separate subject thread. An obituary thread really isn't the most tasteful place to post controversy......

[mikey4444]

FF...don't agree.

There is overwhelming evidence that he had a case to answer, and that he was protected by the Establishment many times over the years. That protection lasted right up until his death. I am not surprised in any way that yet another high-profile figure associated with The Elm Guest House scandal has died before the truth could be arrived at. He joins Cyril Smith, and Jimmy Savile in that category, both of which were very active at the Guest House, and other places.

[mikey4444]

DTC...we crossed in the oost a few minutes ago.

This may have started as an obit thread but there has been a conspicuous lack of any positive comments from anybody whatsoever about Brittan. Its up to people to say something nice about him, and I am not stopping or discouraging anyone from doing that.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //….for those of us in the know…..I shall have to wait until they are all dead, before releasing all the names.//

You are ‘in the know’ and you have ‘all the names’. Can you explain your extraordinary claims?

I never like Leon Brittan, but one thing about this whole kerfuffle does strike me as odd and that’s the ‘lost’ dossier. If I were going to submit potentially explosive information to anyone I would take copies before doing so. That copies don’t appear to exist somewhere makes no sense.

[BlackadderV]

A very valid point, Naomi. If I were in that position I certainly would have deposited at least one copy with a solicitor.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...the dossier was given to Brittan by Dickens many years ago. The existence of this dossier is not now disputed, although Brittan did try to deny that he had received it last year. I am not in any way surprised that it has "disappeared" as it would been of such an explosive nature, that it would almost certainly have been the worst political scandal ever, even more damaging than previous scandals, like the Profumo affair for instance.

By all accounts, the dossier included some names that were already known. Indeed, some of them were subsequently charged and convicted of paedophile activities.

Dickens was somewhat of a loose cannon amongst his Party, and wasn't always taken terribly seriously. But it is my firm belief that the dossier was removed by the security forces and either destroyed, or permanently removed from view. This is exactly what happened to all the evidence that was collected by the two Police Officers that were given the task of investigating Cyril Smith. They were visited by Special Branch and were ordered by the Deputy Chief Constable to hand over their dossier.

I detailed account of this is included in Simon Danczuk's book about Cyril Smith, " Smile for the Camera...the Secret Life of Cyril Smith. I urge you to read this. It exposed not only Smiths paedophilia but his corruption while an MP.

We have Danczuk to thank for bringing up the name of Leon Brittan in last July's session of the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee. As a direct result of this, Cameron asked the Home Office Permanent Secretary to investigate what had happened to the dossier.

Danczuk is also responsible for starting off the chain of events that eventually saw Chris Huhne imprisoned, as he made an official complaint to Essex Police.

[naomi24]

Mikey, you’ve mentioned that book many, many times. Am I to assume that this is the sole source of your expert 'knowledge' - or are you privy to critical information that's unavailable to the rest of us? If so, you really should tell the authorities.

I question why no copies exist.