As he is my local MP I follow Conor Burns on Twitter. He is known as a Thatcherite and an opponent of the UK's membership of the EU. However, tonight he has managed to achieve something I would not have thought possible. He has gone down even further in my estimation by celebrating the fact that Kelvin MacKenzie was the guest speaker at the local party's annual dinner. That would be the same Kelvin MacKenzie who published a pack of lies about the Hillsborough disaster when he edited the Sun.

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As he is my local MP I follow Conor Burns on Twitter. He is known as a Thatcherite and an opponent of the UK's membership of the EU. However, tonight he has managed to achieve something I would not have thought possible. He has gone down even further in my estimation by celebrating the fact that Kelvin MacKenzie was the guest speaker at the local party's annual dinner. That would be the same Kelvin MacKenzie who published a pack of lies about the Hillsborough disaster when he edited the Sun.

 

 

To be fair to him he was fed those lies by senior Sheffield police officers though and he believed them to be true at the time. He made a mistake as everyone does in life. :)

Should we berate This Morning for having Kelvin Mackenzie on sometimes then? I am no fan of the guy but it's pretty irrelevant.

To be fair to him he was fed those lies by senior Sheffield police officers though and he believed them to be true at the time. He made a mistake as everyone does in life. :)

He continued to defend the story long after it became obvious that it was a pack of lies. Even now he has still not offered a full apology for the despicable story.

To be fair to him he was fed those lies by senior Sheffield police officers though and he believed them to be true at the time. He made a mistake as everyone does in life. :)

He says he still doesn't regret the front page though. The man is indefensible.

 

By definition though this isn't a new low for the Tories given they aided and abetted his version of events when in government.

He says he still doesn't regret the front page though. The man is indefensible.

 

By definition though this isn't a new low for the Tories given they aided and abetted his version of events when in government.

To be fair to the mad old bat I think Thatcher had reason to believe a senior police officer would not tell a pack of lies to the Prime Minister. She should have questioned what she was told - after all, she was a trained lawyer - but her reverence for the establishment probably held her back. That's why I won''t accuse her of lying about it to the Commons as I'm sure she thought she was telling the truth.