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Sep. 28th, 2002 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothIn case you haven't heard - John Major and Edwina Curry had an affair for four years while they were both in Thatcher's government.
Am I the only person to remember that he sued a magazine - Scallywag - out of existence when they printed a story that mentioned rumours that he'd had an affair (with someone else) but said they weren't true? Just mentioning them was enough for him to reach for his lawyers... He also sued their printers and distributors - these paid up and, per their contract, passed the costs onto the magazine. How to win a libel action without (much) risk.
Am I the only person to remember that he sued a magazine - Scallywag - out of existence when they printed a story that mentioned rumours that he'd had an affair (with someone else) but said they weren't true? Just mentioning them was enough for him to reach for his lawyers... He also sued their printers and distributors - these paid up and, per their contract, passed the costs onto the magazine. How to win a libel action without (much) risk.
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Date: 2002-09-28 03:28 am (UTC)Now who is it among us who's generally quite left wing but thinks Edwina Currie talks a lot of sense? I can't remember who said that but is one of that LJ lot out there I'm sure of it.
I will track you down!!
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Date: 2002-09-28 03:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-09-28 04:15 am (UTC)I wonder if she found 101 uses for a John Major, like the comic book?
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Date: 2002-09-28 07:33 am (UTC)She was a hell of a lot easier to deal with (indirectly) than some of the other health ministers. And it's bloody typical of the men in politics that she doesn't get mentioined - at all - in his memoirs.
The politician I was working with through the late 80s/most of the 90s was known by some in her party as 'Zedwina' - the same lack of bullshit.
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Date: 2002-09-28 09:17 am (UTC)I'd shag her in a heartbeat, given the chance, incidentally.
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Date: 2002-09-28 01:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-09-30 11:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-09-30 04:23 pm (UTC)Re:
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