What an utter disgrace the BBC website is. It describes Parkinson as Lord Cecil Parkinson as if he were the younger son of an earl, not a pet of Mrs Thatcher given a life peerage.
Why is the BBC website run by ignorant foreign teenagers? Seems barmy to me.
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What an utter disgrace the BBC website is. It describes Parkinson as Lord Cecil Parkinson as if he were the younger son of an earl, not a pet of Mrs Thatcher given a life peerage.
Why is the BBC website run by ignorant foreign teenagers? Seems barmy to me.
You may disagree with an honour (I do), but the correct full address will always give it.
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>> You may disagree with an honour (I do), but the correct full address will always give it.
The correct full address is Lord Parkinson.
He wasn't my favourite tory minister, but I have nothing to say about his getting an honour. Happens all the time, everyone does it, quid pro quo as it were. Just human nature.
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>> >> You may disagree with an honour (I do), but the correct full address will
>> always give it.
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>> The correct full address is Lord Parkinson.
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Have you complained to the BBC .....because the website headline now reads
Tributes paid to Cecil Parkinson
Lord Parkinson.................
However various other items still refer to Lord Cecil Parkinson.
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>> Why is the BBC website run by ignorant foreign teenagers? Seems barmy to me.
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What's foreign and young got to do with it? Us middle-aged Communists wouldn't know whether to call him Lord Parky or Lord Cecil Parky either. We'd probably settle for Cecil. Well, we would have.
Tchah.
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>> Tchah
There there comrade, I assure you you are looking heroically militant.
You wouldn't want to get something so trivial and irrelevant right by accident, would you?
Up the workers! Right up the carphounds too if that's the way you're feeling.
Tchah
Heh heh :o}
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Ha ha, quite so, AC! Heroically militant, I like that.
:-)
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R.I.P.I do remember him he always spoke very slow,like he had a plum in his mouth.Very posh yes.
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>> spoke very slow,like he had a plum in his mouth.Very posh yes.
Not very posh actually Dutchie, like Mrs T herself. That's why they sounded a bit funny when they came on grand.
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No not posh at all really. Born in Lancashire, the son of a railway worker and at one time a member of the Labour Party
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To me - mainly because of the age I was at the time his misdeeds came to light - he's always been the epitome of the poky politician. Of course there was Lloyd George before and we've had Major and Prescott since, but Parkinson seemed to have written the book, especially when it came to keeping an inconveniently pregnant floozie from denying him the glittering career to which he knew he was entitled.
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>> To me - mainly because of the age I was at the time his misdeeds
>> came to light - he's always been the epitome of the poky politician. Of course
>> there was Lloyd George before and we've had Major and Prescott since, but Parkinson seemed
>> to have written the book, especially when it came to keeping an inconveniently pregnant floozie
>> from denying him the glittering career to which he knew he was entitled.
Indeed, a traditional tory politician from the old school.
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>> floozie
>> >> from denying him the glittering career to which he knew he was entitled.
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>> Indeed, a traditional tory politician from the old school.
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Like Robin Cook... (she wasn't even pregnant).
Last edited by: Mapmaker on Mon 25 Jan 16 at 17:34
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These women are casually called floozies but no one calls Parkinson a mincing effeminate-sounding old tart, do they? Seems a bit unfair somehow.
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Read the whole clause, AC. It's written from Poky Parky's point of view: woman as disposable floozie, himself entitled to glittering career. He was a toad.
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Bye Parky, you amoral piece of crap.
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The late Tony Banks, MP for Newham at the time of Parky's fall and one of Parliament's quick wits, contributed to a debate on organ transplants with the words
May I put in a bid for Cecil's plonker - one careful owner
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Daily Telegraph obituary: 'political mastermind'
Private Eye: 'oily and deceitful creep'
You pays your money...
I once had the opportunity to discuss the subject with his successor as chairman of the Tory party. My lips are sealed.
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>> Daily Telegraph obituary: 'political mastermind'
>> Private Eye: 'oily and deceitful creep'
Sounds to me as if the two organs are in violent agreement.
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When I got home last night I was told that Michael Parkinson had died at the ripe old age of 84.
I couldn't find any reference to it on Google, only that Michael is 80.
"Can't be him" I said. "Nothing whatsoever on the internet news websites about it."
"It's him I tell you!", my mum replied.
It was only later that it came to light she actually meant Cecil, bless her. She'd misheard what they had said on the 5 o'clock news on the radio.
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Cecil Parkinson Has Died - Armel Coussine
