Regards, Ivan
Posted on 10/01/2002 5:31:16 AM PDT by MadIvan
A Tory activist today claimed he had an affair with Edwina Currie at the same time as she was sleeping with John Major.
The Beach Boys hit, "I Get Around" is occuring to me for some reason - Ivan
Peter Clarke revealed himself as one of the former health secretary's three secret lovers during the Eighties.
He claimed she seduced him with the line "Would you like to come and see my Peak District?" - a reference to her constituency in Derbyshire.
Looks like we Tories need to do a better job of picking our officials...I would have laughed myself to death at such a line, not been seduced by it. This is turning into an old comedy film..."Carry On Tories" - Ivan
Mr Clarke, 53, who at the time in 1986 was a speechwriter for Tory education minister Sir Keith Joseph, said he had to end the affair because of sheer "physical fatigue".
Claiming they once had sex in Mr Major's office at the House of Commons, Mr Clarke tells the Daily Mirror: "She was quite athletic. I just closed my eyes and thought of Scotland."
Sorry, I'm still gasping from laughter at this - Ivan
He claims rumours of the affair ended his chance of being a Tory MP.
The disclosures coincide with 55-year-old Mrs Currie today heaping new humiliation on Mr Major by accusing him of a string of broken promises and revealing his habit of wearing "big blue underpants".
Just a note for my lady, my mother and sister in case they're reading this - if I don't survive this fit of laughter, the insurance policy is in the top drawer. With the socks, thank you very much. - Ivan
In the second extract from her explosive diaries, she claims he embarked on the affair with her because he is a "risk-taker".
In one astonishing excerpt from January 1991, more than two years after the affair ended, she reveals how strongly she still felt for him.
She writes in her diary: "I wish my flat was filled with one big man in his blue underpants; I wish I was warm and sticky and laughing ... I haven't been drinking but I'm deep in the black hole tonight and there is no one else in here with me."
No comment. - Ivan
The reference is especially wounding for Mr Major as he has often been ridiculed in cartoons depicting him wearing underpants over his trousers.
In another entry from that month, she says: "I was B's [her code name for Major] mistress for four years, and the only people who know are the two of us.
"I loved him very dearly, and I still do, and always will - and it hurts every time I see him on TV, even now as I think about him, and worry about him. I doubt anyone would believe me if I told them, and what good would it do?"
Mrs Currie also tells of her sense of betrayal when, after Mr Major became Prime Minister in 1990, he failed to give her the Cabinet post she says he had promised.
In an entry from 1 December that year, as she was travelling back from Bangladesh, she writes: "Looking through the newspapers, I see that John has created a terrific Cabinet...
"And me... disappointed really. John said in one of our earlier discussions that housing would be OK for me, but I'm sure I would have heard by now... I couldn't manage now on just a backbencher's salary so I hope I'm not offered something honorific, which I might have to turn down. On the other hand, getting nothing will feel like a snub, and from a most unexpected source."
She says that shortly before the 1992 general election the couple enjoyed kisses and a cosy late-night chat at his flat above No10 in which he discussed making her his personal parliamentary aide.
Mrs Currie's diaries, being serialised in The Times, also reveal she had a third affair with a mystery man she describes as a "slob" with "kinky preferences".
Mr Major is on a US speaking tour but Mrs Currie is returning for a flurry of interviews to promote the diaries.
Meanwhile, it was also revealed today that Mr Major has lost about £140,000 on the stock market in the last year.
Mayflower Corporation, the motor industry manufacturing group of which he is a £111,000-a-year non-executive director, put out a profit warning today which slashed the value of the shares by 20 per cent to 36p. Mr Major has more 200,000 shares which 12 months ago were trading at more than £1 each.
Regards, Ivan
Best Regards, Ivan
 Edwina Currie |
 John Major |
Love in Bloom
Sung most famously by Bing Crosby
Blue nights and you
Alone with me.
My heart has never known such ecstasy.
Am I on earth?
Am I in Heaven?
Can it be the trees
That fill the breeze
With rare and magic perfume?
Oh no, it isn't the trees
It's love in bloom.
Can it be the spring
That seems to bring
The stars right into this room
Oh no, it isn't the spring
Its love in bloom.
My heart was a desert
You planted a seed
And this is the flower
This hour of sweet fullfillment.
Is it all a dream, a joy supreme
That came to us in the gloom?
You know it isn't a dream
It's love in bloom.
My heart was a desert
But you planted a seed
And this is the flower
This hour of sweet fullfillment.
Is it all a dream, a joy supreme
That came to us in the gloom?
You know it isn't a dream
It's love in bloom.
Regards, Ivan
. So where do you keep you 'big blue underpants'? ;-) *ROFL*
Hmpf, just because I'm a Tory you assume I have big blue underpants. I'll have you know young lady, that there is no such clause in the Tory membership that you have to wear big blue underpants. In fact big blue underpants are obviously going to be the rack and ruin of this country. Indeed our very institutions are being undermined by the presence of big blue underpants. If this government was serious about dealing with the problems that face our society, they'd be addressing how to stamp out big blue underpants altogether!
My blue boxer shorts, however, are in the bottom drawer
Best Regards, Ivan
I thought that neither a gentleman nor a lady kisses and tells.
Regards, Ivan
He said nothing. She, on the other hand, wants to sell books.
Regards, Ivan
Partially I'm laughing, the other part I'm chuckling in revenge, and the other part I'm worried. I'm worried because this exploded far too close to the Tory Party Conference next week, and people doing impersonations of John Major saying "Oh Edwina" may be more noticed than what IDS has to say. I'm chuckling in revenge because Major gave Our Maggie a hard time, such a bad time I left the Tories for nearly 10 years. I'm laughing because, well, it's so bloody funny. ;)
Regards, Ivan
Very wise Ivan. It's right up there with the wish to be a ladies personal hygiene device. Or down.
But she does look athletic, I'll give her that.
regards
...the rest of your post is noted ;-)!
Yes, mo mhile gra, think of John Major in his grey cardigan, saying, "I've got my Mojo back" and "Yeah baby yeah".
Sort of a Tory Austin Powers if you catch my drift. ;)
ducking
Best Regards, Ivan
But if it's going to happen, I demand an end to this Bill Clinton "picking the low-hanging fruit" syndrome. Profumo chased Keeler around, and she was a babe. Across the pond back then, JFK was slipping it to Marilyn Monroe (and as many others as he could fit into a given week). And now we have Edwina Currie? Monica Lewinsky? You're the President and PM, for crying out loud - have some standards! ;)
Actually Grover Cleveland was innocent of that. He was loyal to his wife.
You're the President and PM, for crying out loud - have some standards! ;)
Well look on the bright side, rather than look on our leaders with envy, we say, "Don't fancy yours, mate". ;)
Regards, Ivan
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