Your favourite dirty politician

[bigbadwolf]

He lacks sinister notoriety Quids. A libel case and a few cash for question accusations doesn't put him up there with the Archers and Aitkens.

[mockney piers]

Although he might top a league of sheer odiousness.

I Remeber a Tory MP saying that Hamilton turned to him while Gerald Kaufman was speaking in the house and [allegedly] said something on the lines of "why are we forced to listen to this dreadful Jew".

Chap said it was his single most shocking and disgusting moment n his poltical career?

[HonaloochieB]

I think Hamolton desrves a spot because of that godawful wife of his.

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[????]

....and Thorpe? Not guilty?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It was the labrador what did it.

[HonaloochieB]

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> ....and Thorpe? Not guilty?

Who caress, I want to know whether the bunnies ever got to France.

[Jah Lush]

I wouldn't trust any politician as far as I could throw 'em. Bastards the bloody lot of 'em.

How could you forget this though.

Peter Cook's brilliant satire of bias judge's summing up of the Jeremy Thorpe trial.

[HonaloochieB]

Exactly what was running through my mind JL.

I can't play it at work, but 'self-confessed player of the pink oboe' was a good 'un.

[Jah Lush]

Yes and incredibly he wrote it in about ten minutes the night before the show. Genius.

[SimonM]

It wasn't a labrador with Thorpe it was a Great Dane IIRC

The ultimate dirty politician was JFK

[Jah Lush]

Correct. A Great Dane. Thought to have been bought for Norman Scott for his own protection.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Well, I was only a little girl at the time - I just remember a dog on the front page.

[HonaloochieB]

Rinka, it was called.

[SteveT]

My favourite dirty politician was Guy Fawkes, as he came from a long line of chimney sweeps!

[SimonM]

But, as has often been noted, Fawkes & his buddies are the only chaps to have entered Parliament with honourable intentions...

I pass his birthplace every time I stay in York (it's now a pub!)

[casper]

Mark Oaten's alleged coprophilia has to make him the dirtiest politician surely??

[SteveT]

Is coprophilia going to bed with a bag of soot?