THE JEREMY THORPE SCANDAL (weekly poem)

THE JEREMY THORPE SCANDAL

The BBC recently broadcast a 3-part drama on the Jeremy Thorpe

scandal and a cancelled 1979 Panorama investigation all of which

demonstrated a cover-up between the three main political parties.

The sexual scandal 'dogging' Mr Thorpe,

Caused all of Westminster's elect to gawp;

'A murder plot' and then 'a gay nuance',

A note, “And Bunnies too, will go to France”! (1)

The 'victim' of this heinous 'murder plot',

Was ex-male fashion model, Norman Scott;

But Mr Thorpe at length got off the hook,

The High Court Judge called Mr Scott, “A crook”! (2)

And then summed up in such a biased way,

That Jeremy was happy and so gay;

To have been vindicated all along,

In spite the fact the evidence was strong.

But British justice dealt with bent MP's,

And Jeremy experienced the squeeze;

Which cost him leadership of all the Libs,

Because of the (alleged!) gay naughty fibs!

And so Thorpe lost his Parliamentary seat,

And thus departed Westminster's elite;

All those Six-Hundred or so well-paid bores,

Who sometimes turn-up for their Common's chores.

And who pretend that they're all deadly foes,

Whilst they all covered-up for one of those;

A Member of the House who was defined,

By those who knew, as musically inclined! (3)

(1) A promise made by Thorpe to Scott in a love letter,

“Bunnies can and will go to France”.

(2) The Judge was Sir Joseph Cantley. See Peter Cook's parody of his

pro-Thorpe summing-up, “Entirely a Matter for You” on You Tube.

(3) Players of the pink oboe.

© Richard Layton