Leon Brittain has died

[steveT350C]

@GuidoFawkes: Guido understands Leon Brittain has died at 75 - sources: http://t.co/sdxHYjLp6W

[hornetrider]

[steveT350C]

hornetrider said:

Indeed

[steveT350C]

not kidding

[Pat H]

hornetrider said:

Stuff

I'd be tempted to say sweet FA until I am sure that he has gone.....

[BlackLabel]

Wonder if newspaper editors are now digging up old stories on him they never got round to printing. You can't libel the dead and all that.

[shakotan]

No reports on any other media platform.

[hornetrider]

shakotan said:

No reports on any other media platform.

It's on the Telegraph ticker.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservat...

[Pothole]

Pat H said:

hornetrider said:

Stuff

I'd be tempted to say sweet FA until I am sure that he has gone.....

Now reported on Sky and BBC.

[steveT350C]

on BBC news now

[Seight_Returns]

Headline on Sky now

[shakotan]

hornetrider said:

shakotan said:

No reports on any other media platform.

It's on the Telegraph ticker.

Seeing them surface now.

[shakotan]

BlackLabel said:

Wonder if newspaper editors are now digging up old stories on him they never got round to printing. You can't libel the dead and all that.

It'll be just like Savile all over again.

[dudleybloke]

Will his coffin be made from elm?

[jogon]

He gave a speech and awarded the prizes at my school prize giving ceremony when I was about 15 I think. I didn't win anything.

[Vincefox]

Disgusting.

This is the sort of thing that makes us look like f**king idiots to the rest of the world.

[greygoose]

Vincefox said:

Disgusting.

This is the sort of thing that makes us look like f**king idiots to the rest of the world.

I am sure someone won a prize, just not jogon.

[jogon]

greygoose said:

Vincefox said:

Disgusting.

This is the sort of thing that makes us look like f**king idiots to the rest of the world.

I am sure someone won a prize, just not jogon.

I know travesty aye

[scenario8]

Blimey, you guys didn't take long to lay into him! I'd expected some fawning from PH at the passing of a senior figure from the Thatcher years.

There's been no obvious shortage of senior politicians praising him in the media this afternoon.

Hopefully we'll see if there is a case to be made against him if ever this historic abuse enquiry ever gets off the ground.

[The Don of Croy]

After Jeremy Thorpe's passing the beeb aired a documentary they'd sat on, detailing some of Thorpe's known misdemeanours which were never publicised while he was alive.

Perhaps they'll do the same for 'Latvian Leon'.

Those cupboards, they have a remarkable capacity for skeletons.