Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W)
#0145* – Harry BECKHOUGH SHARP AS EVER AT 97 @ The Tory Conference 2010
Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 07/10/2010
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I am humbled to have first met Harry as a friend about 15 years ago –
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Sadly there is something of a dirth of characters like Harry or we might not be in the sad position we now hold.
That said he was and is an honourable man a rare commodity amongst politicians nowadays as it has become a ‘job’ with minimum work and maximum pay and attracts some of the most loathsone oiks – one need only read UKIP members only Forum or Anthony Butcher’s scrofulous followers who post with ignorant regularity.
May I commend other talks by Harry on You Tube for The Marlborough Research Group which he still runs with Robert Francis both friends who used to attend the political weekends at The Huntsman Nr. Chepstow, which I used to run (more like herding cats! and on that note not only have we lost Christopher Story but Michael Shrimpton is going back home to Oz at the end of this month!)
http://video.google.co.uk/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6385433783198588329&hl=en&fs=true
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AudacesFortunaJuvat2015 said
This is undoubtedly not the end of Mr. Shrimpton [said to be of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)], or at least of the effects he may be having on the United Kingdom.
I am referring to the Thoburn appeal before Lord Justice Laws in which Mr. Shrimpton was of counsel. I studied that appeal judgment over a year ago, in some detail — I don’t have the notes in front of me — and I was of the opinion that something very odd happened in the course of that appeal decision.
I had the impression that Shrimpton deliberately overlooked important constitutional law and fact; and that Lord Justice Laws was doing likewise; and that moreover, that Lord Justice Laws (with the cooperative “silence” of Mr. Shrimpton in the face of it) unilaterally altered the institutions of Parliament with respect to its fundamental character and thus the nature of its Sovereignty, by a form of “judicial amendment”.
Persons with profound knowledge of constitutional law must study that Thoburn “appeal” in detail and see what has happened, and what can be done about it.
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Greg Lance-Watkins said
Hi,
having spoken with Michael several times a day during the case you site and having provided a detailed on line commentary at the time – I incline to agree with you on your contentions regarding this case.
Sadly however, as a result of various catastrophic decisions and an ever burgeoning and somewhat delusional view on many conspiracy ‘theories’, together with something of a loss of connection to reality I believe it is unlikely that Michael will make anything of a comeback on his release from prison.
That he is still a friend of mine and I believe has been sadly betrayed by the legal system and the basic tennets of justice is a well documented fact.
Regards,
Greg_L-W.
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