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« on: November 13, 2021, 12:09:35 PM »
What do you of the controversial liberal leader ? Do you think he really did hire a hitman to kill his ex lover ?
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2021, 05:50:38 PM »
Comically evil.
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2021, 05:59:32 PM »
Hilarious Person.
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« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2021, 08:58:18 PM »
Why ? The hiring a hitman thing ?
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« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2021, 09:09:39 AM »
RIP Rinka
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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2021, 09:54:50 AM »
He was acquitted of that charge, take your slander elsewhere.
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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2021, 10:30:36 AM »
He was indeed acquitted, that is totally fair comment.

It is, however, equally fair comment that literally nobody - including in his own party - genuinely and confidently agreed with that verdict. The judge's summing up was almost hilariously biased, and was memorably satirised by Peter Cook just days later.
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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2021, 10:42:43 AM »
Quote from: CumbrianLeftie on November 14, 2021, 10:30:36 AM
He was indeed acquitted, that is totally fair comment.

It is, however, equally fair comment that literally nobody - including in his own party - genuinely and confidently agreed with that verdict. The judge's summing up was almost hilariously biased, and was memorably satirised by Peter Cook just days later.
I'm being sarcastic, it's obvious he was guilty of the very least tax evasion, blackmail and conspiracy to intimidate as well as commissioning the murder of a dog and he was probably guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.
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« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2021, 12:07:57 PM »
He also appeared to know about Cyril Smith's paedophilic nature, and did nothing.
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« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2021, 12:16:45 PM »

It's not often that an actual comic book villain ends up in charge of a milquetoast centrist third-party. Pretty iconic honestly.
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« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2021, 12:28:31 PM »
Quote from: Doctor V on November 14, 2021, 12:16:45 PM

It's not often that an actual comic book villain ends up in charge of a milquetoast centrist third-party. Pretty iconic honestly.

You should watch the BBC television drama about Thorpe and his downfall - A Very English Scandal. Brilliant and hilarious.
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« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2021, 12:36:04 PM »
« Edited: November 14, 2021, 12:42:54 PM by Alcibiades »
A Very English Scandal is indeed one of the best things the BBC has done in recent years, and does a fantastic job of portraying Thorpe as the magnetic, fiercely politically principled (with many of these principles being rather good), yet personally morally bankrupt individual he was, who in another life may have done something rather more notorious than lead the Liberal Party.
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« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2021, 07:27:57 PM »
Quote from: Filuwaúrdjan on November 14, 2021, 12:28:31 PM
Quote from: Doctor V on November 14, 2021, 12:16:45 PM

It's not often that an actual comic book villain ends up in charge of a milquetoast centrist third-party. Pretty iconic honestly.

You should watch the BBC television drama about Thorpe and his downfall - A Very English Scandal. Brilliant and hilarious.
Reading the book was what prompted me to make this thread.
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