[Closed] Tell it as it is !!!!

Oh, the same Cyril that helped cover up Turner & Newell's asbestos pollution for decades ?

Did he not accept his failings over this in later years and offer his shares back and recompense, or did I dream this?

In the pockets of business, but showed regret when found out. I struggle to see what the great example is. Seems like a typical MP, but fatter

Oh, the same Cyril that helped cover up Turner & Newell's asbestos pollution for decades ?

What a greedy self-serving bastard. I bet he only showed 'remorse' once his own pockets had been sufficiently lined...

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A quick Google finds this. What a prince among men! Not a chiseller at all.

As my former MP for many yrs, i hope the fat ****** rots in hell.

People are still dying here, & will do for many yrs of this horrible disease - a disease known about for over a century.

ScotchEgg; that's just horrific, isn't it?

I wasn't aware of this T+N scandal until SimonFBarnes mentioned it. What a disgrace. Certainly not been mentioned in any of the 'tribute' news articles about the man. He basically acted as a political spokesman and negotiator for this company which knew full well the effects of asbestos pollution, but chose instead to cover it up in favour of profit. The portly, jovial loveable MP had blood on his hands. He knew. He chose to line his own nest instead of acting for the good of the people who voted him into parliament. What a ****.

Private Eye have long been on the case T&N and the cynical way it was wound up to prevent payouts and clean up costs. All nodded through with a wink by this fat idiot and cronies in Parliament

Still on the upside, the OP did say, 'Tell it as it is' That seems to be going well on htis thread.

mundiesmiester - Member
Did he not accept his failings over this in later years and offer his shares back and recompense,

So what if he did?

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Never new about this ....

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."

Yup, that photo is about right. That whole valley is only a mile or so from me. Everyone in this town knew something wasn't right yrs ago but it was hard to pin them down, especially when Turners had the big guns on board helping them deny the rumours. It's still a 😯 contaminated area today, even with the huge amounts of clean topsoil they dropped on top of the whole site. They now want to build houses on it!

I was more surprised that he was still alive (until he died of course!) - I thought he'd died donkeys years ago!!!

People are still dying here, & will do for many yrs of this horrible disease - a disease known about for over a century.

including my old man 🙁

If we are telling it as it is, my mates ex Kerrie is a low life idiot

Ah feel better now, kind of.

And all the experts tell us that being morbidly obese will send you to an early grave. 82 is hardly early!