Jeremy Thorpe

[VeritasVincit]

The Jeremy Thorpe affair.

“A Very English Scandal”
BBC1 9-00pm Sunday

It was at this time that a friend of mine coined a new political slogan.
‘Join the Liberal Party and widen the circle of your friends.’

[AlcoholBrazil]

I wonder if Big Cyril will get a mention.

[VeritasVincit]

I wonder if Big Cyril will get a mention.

Will this do to be going on with.
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/bo ... 36271.html

[m4rkb]

Having come across numerous examples, I'm convinced political and social power coincides with a desire for perversion.

[JimmyDee]

They made a film about it, Scott of the Arse-antics.

[m4rkb]

They made a film about it, Scott of the Arse-antics.

That's nearly as bad as the one about Jeremy Thorpe rising to the top of politics from the bottom up.

[Basualdo]

What do Captain Kirk and Jeremy Thorpe have in common?
"Give me more thrust, Scotty."


Vote Liberal or we'll shoot your dog.

[tennisman]

Scott (from the trial) - The next morning he asked me, 'How would you like your eggs?'

[VeritasVincit]

I was struggling to remember the origin of "pillow biter", which became part of many jokes at the time.
The courtroom scenes will probably give the answer

[Zambo]

Not just homosexuals though, I've known women in who have adopted the dorsal-ventral position, to spit feathers for hours after.

[Eaststand]

I'd never heard of this, probably because it was 3 years before I was born and involved an irrelevant politician, but having just spent quite a while reading about this, its quite sad really, some bender breaks the cardinal rule, never stick your dick in crazy, and instead of going "jesus lads, this cunt won't leave me alone, haha", he has to resort to trying to kill said mental bummer, knowing itll ruin his career if it gets out hes gay, and it ultimately did.

Sad.

[Basualdo]

But hilarious at the time.
You cannot imagine the enjoyment of a 16 year old school leaver watching supposedly straitlaced reporters and newsreaders try to creepily skirt around some of the sordid details like the pillow biting and "Bunny will be coming on holiday."

Fucken ace!

I even started a decades long habit of buying Private Eye because of it.

I genuinely considered joining Bron Waugh's new Dog Lovers political party, even though I didn't really like dogs.


Here's the rub though. If Thorpe had just got his 'Carry On' hitman to plug lover boy in the first place I doubt anyone would have really given a fuck. It would have been an establishment cover up, like all the others before and since, to be trotted out occasionally for political leverage on the sly.


But Not So Deadly Dickface the bumbling assassin killed the guy's dog instead.

Pray for Rinka.







No politician on these islands gets away with having a dog shot without his career, if not his balls, lying in a tattered smelly heap of blood and faeces.

I'm only surprised that Thorpe wasn't hanged, drawn and quartered and had his limbs displayed on the flagpoles down the Mall.

[Carlos J]

Bas tells it well.

Saves me typing paragraphs of shite.

[Basualdo]

Bas tells it well.
Saves me typing paragraphs of shite.

And this is why I deserve more credit in this place.

[Carlos J]

Bas tells it well.
Saves me typing paragraphs of shite.

And this is why I deserve more credit in this place.

+1

-1 if you did not watch, 'Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier' last night on forum duty. Bad Mod.