RIP Mandy Rice-Davies

[commandlinegamer]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/19/mandy-rice-davies-profumo-model-dies

Rice-Davies. . .was responsible for one of the best-known quotations of modern time: “He would, wouldn’t he?”, made during the Old Bailey trial of Stephen Ward, an osteopath charged with living off the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and her friend Rice-Davies.

Keeler had had an affair with the then war secretary John Profumo and had also had sex with the Soviet naval attache in London who was a spy. Profumo’s disgrace followed a false denial that he had slept with Keeler, and the resulting furore probably played a part in the Conservatives’ defeat at the general election the following year.

I wasn't born at the time of The Profumo Affair but for a long time it seemed to be the scandal of the late-20th century UK politics.

Take the Cold War out of the equation - if it happened now I couldn't see this being more than a footnote in today's news.

 

[Soapy Sam]

A scandal for it's time. These days there would be a years-long public enquiry , at our expense, after which some pillar of the establishment in a silly wig would report that nobody was guilty of anything, except the odd pleb.

 

[calebprime]

Yes, a scandal for its time.

 

[fuelair]

A fun time in the world that was!!!

 

[Noztradamus]

A scandal for it's time. These days there would be a years-long public enquiry , at our expense, after which some pillar of the establishment in a silly wig would report that nobody was guilty of anything, except the odd pleb.

He would say that. wouldn't he?