Enoch Powell...

[sandyRoe]

I'd long ago heard a rumour that he was gay. If true, he was clearly not cut from the same flamboyant cloth as someone like Larry Greyson. He seems to have been more in the mould of people like Leon Brittain, taking a wife as camouflage and sacrificing his true appetites in order to further a political career.
Now he's been linked to paedophile enquiries.
Who'd have thought it?

[grumpy01]

Stable doors and all that.

[TWR]

Sandy, in my opinion it does not matter if the person is Gay / Lesbian, If they do their job that they are paid to do & do it well, no problem.

[sandyRoe]

Whether he was gay or not is immaterial. If he was a paedophile people may look at him in a different light.

[TWR]

Different issue, you are right.

[douglas9401]

Some might say that the energies of the authorities might be better expended on rooting out those still alive and available for prosecution than diverting resources to a box of bones beyond the reach of the law.

[tonyav]

Heres a link, sandy.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/tory-mp-enoch-powell-investigated-as-alleged-member-of-westminster-paedophile-network/ar-AAaaycj

[Philoctetes]

I do find it suspicious that the deceased who are being accused are usually prominent Tory hate figures. Sexual predilections are surely not related to politics! In this case, the "evidence" to date consists of a single, unsubstantiated report of a conversation between a vicar and an anonymous parishioner in Brighton. If the accused were alive, no paper would touch the story on that evidence. And we should all remember that, since the date of what is being reported, both "homosexual" and "under age" have significantly changed in the linguistic baggage they carry.