Ex-Conservative chairman Cecil Parkinson dies aged 84

[LeftishBrit]

Cecil Parkinson has died aged 84 after what his family said was "a long battle with cancer".

As Conservative Party chairman under Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s, he played a key role in the Tories' 1983 general election victory.

Lord Parkinson quit the cabinet soon after when it emerged his ex-secretary Sara Keays was carrying his child.

Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "a man of huge ability" who had helped transform the UK in the 1980s.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35403445

[Bad Dog]

1. I think David Milliband resigning his seat and going off in a huff,

set the tone for his brother's leadership. All the talk about serving in his brother's cabinet prior to the leadership vote was shown to be a load of bollocks. The party was split from the off, and unless the sniping against Corbyn stops there'll be another Tory victory in 2020.

First and foremost, the party needs to be united.

[Denzil_DC]

3. Wrong thread?

[Bad Dog]

5. Yes, wrong thread.

What am I like. Sorry.


I thought Parkinson was incredibly slimy, like a lot of Tories.

[Denzil_DC]

6. LOL.

Happens to us all!

Never had any time for Parkinson, just another privileged face and patronizing accent among the ugly, amorphous Tory blob that blighted the early part of my adult life and has now come back to haunt me.

He's another of those public figures whose demise I greeted with surprise that he was still alive.

[non sociopath skin]

2. I don't do dancing on graves but I find it difficult to mourn a man ...

... who helped bring so much unhappiness to so many purely for his own betterment.

His passing is "noted".

The Skin

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. He treated Sara Keays and their daughter pretty shabbily too

All designed to make Conservative activists to forget about them and make him look like the media's victim, so that he could waltz back into the party corridors of power.