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Cyril Smith dies

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Fedayn

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Shame that the fat cunt didn't die a lingering painful death

T&N also relied on the assistance of Cyril Smith, the larger-than-life Rochdale MP and parliamentary pioneer of the Saturday-night television chat-show sofa. During the summer recess of 1981, Smith wrote to Sydney Marks, the head of personnel, informing him that the House would debate EEC regulations on asbestos in the next parliamentary session.

The letter asks simply: "Could you please, within the next eight weeks, let me have the speech you would like to make (were you able to!), in that debate?"

T&N's draft is almost identical to the speech delivered by the Rochdale MP, stressing the need for less regulation and arguing that substitutes for asbestos should be approached "with caution". "The public at large are not at risk," said Smith. "It is necessary to say that time and time again."

Writing in the local paper, he claimed to have "worked very hard on the speech and have spent hours, both in reading and in being at the works, trying to master the facts about safety in asbestos".

A year later he declared 1,300 shares in the company. Six months after that J B Heron, the chairman of T&N, wrote to Smith again, thanking him for his assistance with the Commons select committee meetings which followed Alice, a Fight for Life, the Yorkshire Television documentary that highlighted the plight of T&N employees.

When last month the New Statesman approached Smith for a comment, he said: "If you've got the documents, it is all true."
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more on factory ownership in Guardian obituary, which refers to his T&N corruption as a "controversy".

As chairman of Smith Springs (1963-87), employing some 70 people, Smith was attacked from the left for being a capitalist while preaching industrial participation, but, as his autobiography, Big Cyril (1977), made clear, his management style was consistent with his politics. He noted that the company's works council voted unanimously against joining the Transport and General Workers Union.

He found himself embroiled in further controversy through his association with Turner and Newall, a Rochdale-based company involved in the manufacture and marketing of asbestos. Smith was its consistent advocate in parliament, even after a clear link between asbestos and the cancer mesothelioma was established. A year after speaking in support of the firm in 1981, he declared the ownership of 1,300 its shares.
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Yes, I can remember reading about the fact he was a paedo, and a particularly vicious one at that, a couple of years ago. David Steel's comments on the matter are interesting.

The fact that the scum has been able to die in some kind of dignity shocks me.
 
kenny g said:
Yes, I can remember reading about the fact he was a paedo, and a particularly vicious one at that, a couple of years ago. David Steel's comments on the matter are interesting.

The fact that the scum has been able to die in some kind of dignity shocks me.
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Do you have a link?
 
Whenever some-one is described as "plain speaking" it usually means they are/were a bit of a cunt imo
 
Well i think some of these comments are really nasty. None of you know the man any you are getting all worked up about nothing...you've probably never even met him.

Cyril was a lovely guy. I was born in Rochdale, Cyril was a good family friend that had worked with my mother. I grew up and saw him alot of time, as far as i know he had an excellent reputation both in Politics and the local community, he worked hard and did what he had to and saved alot of jobs as most people who lived around that area at the time were employed by Turners.

I'd never heard of the allegations of child abuse against him but i dont believe them for a second. there were alot of political smears against the man because he was very outspoken and he said it how it was even if he wasnt towing the line. He's well loved by most of the people in Rochdale and indeed around the country.

RIP
 
What about when he was proven to have acted in bad faith with regard to the asbestos? Saved jobs or not, he knew it was deadly. It wasn't about jobs, it was about money.

As for the nonce allegations, Smith didn't do a great deal to combat them when he was alive. The evidence was compelling enough for people to publish and be damned...
 
I'm not going to keep arguing this point i just wanted to add a different perspective. People who haven't got all the facts and do a little reading on google are entitled to hate him if they want its a free world. I know there are many people out there who know he was a great man who did many more good things than bad.

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=16660
 
You thick cunt.

You defend a corrupt and violent child abuser who defend an asbestos manufacturing company long after the links on health were made clear for money. That makes you as bad as him. Your family are all cunts by the sounds of it.
 
Spanky Longhorn said:
You thick cunt.

You defend a corrupt and violent child abuser who defend an asbestos manufacturing company long after the links on health were made clear for money. That makes you as bad as him. Your family are all cunts by the sounds of it.
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Jesus. :rolleyes:

The child abuse allegations are not confirmed.

And he was overweight because of a medical condition, not cos he ate too much.
 
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