Things Have Been Quiet On This Front But Not For Much Longer

[poliphilo]

Lord McAlpine is dropping his threat to sue the world. I imagine he was advised he was making a fool of himself. He will, however, be going ahead with his action against Sally Bercow.  I predict he'll lose. Meanwhile a much bigger- but related- scandal is about to break. According to insiders  the police will shortly be arresting one of McAlpine's former colleagues- a veteran of the Thatcher years and one of the grandest of Tory grandees-  on charges of child abuse and child rape. The people who protected this man and kept him in gainful employment (many of them currently in government) must be working very hard right now on their alibis and excuses. "It wasn't me; it was my PPS and he acted entirely without my authority."

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm looking forward to it. I bet there's more than one of them, as well.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If they arrest one, others may follow. There are certainly lots of names being bandied around. Nevertheless the man who is in view at the moment is a very big fish- arguably the biggest of those we know about.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, but was that a chorus of Lindisfarne's: 'Bring Down the Government' I just heard playing? :o)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Could this destroy the government? I don't know. It will certainly embarrass them greatly.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

"It wasn't me; it was my PPS and he acted entirely without my authority."

As if Bernard didn't have to deal with enough...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Poor Bernard :(

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

My hub is a senior civil servant and I think I know what he'd think about who is likely to get the blame.

The idea that the buck stops at the top seems to have been flung out by this present generation of overprivileged, braying public school types

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It does.

No-one resigns on a point of honour these days- but perhaps they never did.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

John Profumo might disagree with you! :o)

No one ever tells the rest of the story though- how he spent the rest of a long life atoning for that stupid act by charitable deeds and acts.........................

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Profumo had little choice. He was found to have lied to Parliament.

But, yes, he made good use of the rest of his life.