Friday 24 May 2013

Innocent Face

It could never have been Lord McAlpine, you silly Sally.

It was a Cabinet Minister, which he never was. And it was someone so famous as to be identifiable even by institutionalised children, which he certainly never was.

We have always known who it obviously was not, a list to which almost the entire population of the world could be added.

But who was it?

Or has the Prime Minister of the day, who must have known, taken that secret to the grave?

1 comment:

  1. I have this very odd remembrance which keeps recurring. I am now officially so old that when I ask other politically aware people " do you remember.....?" , they look at me as if I was mad.
    But I have a vague recollection circa 1985 of a satire show " Who Dares Wins" (Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville, Philip Pope, Tony Robinson) early Channel 4 which possibly went out live...and. Some speculation that a Cabinet Minister would be named. As I THINK I recall the actual sketch featured a mens toilet and some graffiti which was being hastily cleaned up by the cast. my recollection (faulty? ) is the name was partially visible.
    Afterwards there was (remarkably??? ) little publicity.

    FJH

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