Cecil Parkinson Has Passed Away

[mikey4444]

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

I will leave it others to pay tribute.

[jackthehat]

I can't see there being quite the outpouring of affection we witnessed with Bowie and Rickman.

[campbellking]

Sarah Keays, for example?

[Baldric]

R I P Cecil, a good man lost.

///He successfully managed the Conservative Party's 1983 election campaign///

[jackthehat]

He may have been an able politician....but a good man? No, not really....

[retrocop]

How Sad on both counts.

[anaxcrosswords]

Best chat show host we ever produced.
No, wait...

[Togo]

R.I.P. Cecil Parkinson. Charming man, especially when compared to some.

[retrocop]

Togo
I have to agree.Nothing churlish about that Gentleman.

[Peter Pedant]

erm he didnt pass away

on the job did he ?

He was a man who made only one mistake - twice a night for two years ....
( not the nine oclock news )

[Sqad]

Yes...depends what you mean by a "good man".
To me he was a well educated able Politician with ALL the attributes of a "good man"....that is by my definition.

I wonder how many "clean men" go to their maker with hidden or undiscovered infidelity? But not to be discovered is the important factor.

AB will have a "hey day" both Politically and morally on his death.

[Peter Pedant]

// Togo I have to agree.Nothing churlish about that Gentleman.//

hey hold on ! nothing churlish ? - he used to put his wing-wong around didnt he ? In places it didnt ought to be

Michael Todd committed suicide because everyone knew he had an itchy prack - see a somewhat censored account here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Todd

and I wouldnt go so far as to say there was nothig churlish about him

[-Talbot-]

I wonder how many "clean men" go to their maker with hidden or undiscovered infidelity?


It isn't just about the infidelity though is it, sqad!

[Sqad]

^^^^^ isn't it? What had you got in mind Talbot?

[Peter Pedant]

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Sqad - one of the Birmingham surgeons at the General was pretty censorious about the supposed immorality of his junior staff in the eighties. Even if you can nale him please do not

and then ran away with the Theatre Sister !

we were all gob smacked really at the enthusiastic finger pointing prior to the lovers' elopement - clearly there was no law against doing either

[Sqad]

PP.exactly......how many of us are above reproach?

[Prudie]

Wasn't he a cad because he persistently denied parentage - rather than being unfaithful? That's from fuzzy memory.

[sandyRoe]

Did he make financial provision for his handicapped love child? I believe he did say there'd be no place in his life for her.

[pips1]

Have you read the Sara/Flora Keays story? They have had horrendous times, Sara has more than paid for her mistake. I wonder if he will now pay for his?

[-Talbot-]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/12120477/The-only-promise-Cecil-Parkinson-ever-kept-never-to-see-his-daughter.html

[anneasquith]

I hope his daughter (so long ignored) benefits from his estate .