Jeremy Thorpe Rip

[sandyRoe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30336167

[237SJ]

Oh dear. I was only asking the other day if he`s still alive. He was our MP and I remember all the trouble over Norman Scott.

[whirlyhurly]

Yes and somebody shot Norman Scott's dog, a rather horrid unsavoury mess.

[sandyRoe]

He was in his mid 80s. A good innings even though he'd been ill for some time.

[The Builder]

237 will possibly remember the trial going on in North Devon. Everyone had a theory, or knew someone who knew someone etc. Mostly in the pubs.

Plenty of conspiracy theories too, I remember.

[Hopkirk]

I didn't realise he was still with us.

[DTCwordfan]

Has he been beamed up or down, I wonder?

[BlackadderV]

His wife died earlier this year. Her first husband was the Earl of Harewood, first cousin to the queen, whom she divorced because of his adultery. Lots of funny goings on in high places.

[DTCwordfan]

Lots of funny goings on in low places too, if I remember right.

[Peter Pedant]

Yes and somebody shot Norman Scott's dog, a rather horrid unsavoury mess.

after it was shot: the dogs name was Rinka
you can visit Rinka's grave on Exmoor
The shooter was Andrew Gino ("If you want a hitman, that's me!") Newman
who he said was employed to shoot Norman but shot the dog instead


I dont really remember much of that case......

[sandyRoe]

Didn't Private Eye run a candidate representing The Dog Lovers Party in Thorpes then constituency?

[Peter Pedant]

// Lots of funny goings on in low places too, if I remember right. //

oh the letter - "Bunnies can and WILL go to France"
Norman Scott's nickname he said was 'Bunny'

Alan Aychbourn has a two-parter - "Newfoundland" at the time in which a politician was caught in sexual shenanigans. Very topical

It was such a long time ago: the details are fading

[Peter Pedant]

Evelyn Waugh's eldest - a journo Auberon was fixated by it for years.

[DTCwordfan]

How does one get to the top of the Liberal Party - One starts at the bottom.

[tonyav]

Was the dog a Lib Lab ?

[-Talbot-]

Can't help but notice the lack of RIP's on this thread.

[DTCwordfan]

sums up the man, Talbot.....

[Peter Pedant]

po' Jem... RIP

but I think he would rather be noticed to be honest

[EDDIE51]

I remember the joke that went something like
Jeremy Thorpe goes to the doctor and says '' Doctor I think I must have got a splinter in my bum!''
Doctor replies '' You're lucky you haven't got the whole blo*dy cabinet in there!''

[janbee]

Eddie lol xx
Actually, for all his "ways", I liked Jeremy Thorpe. He was VERY stupid and naïve, in the extreme, and he faded rapidly into obscurity. However, the man is now dead, so RIP Mr Thorpe.