To be sickened to hear all the tributes being paid to Cecil Parkinson

[wasonthelist]

The "father" who refused to have anything at all to do withhis daughter -

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/12120477/The-only-promise-Cecil-Parkinson-ever-kept-never-to-see-his-daughter.html

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/12120477/The-only-promise-Cecil-Parkinson-ever-kept-never-to-see-his-daughter.html

I think your post is in extremely bad taste.

Why? What's in bad taste is all the people lining up to say how great he was.

YABU to be 'sickened'. Bit overly dramatic. Save 'sickened' for the many horrors happening in the world today in the name of religion etc - you won't have to look too hard to find any number of things.
Unless you know his daughter? Do you?

No I agree with wasonthelist, he had that injunction granted to try and save his career, it was draconian and the fact he felt his daughter should be institutionalised is disgraceful.

No I don't know his daughter but I regard anyone who treated their daughter like that the same. Thedouble standards are/were sickening.

Yanbu OP! He tried to hide and silence his disabled daughter. He was a complete shit. And I too felt sickened after reading tributes about him on Twitter this afternoon.

I've been a little at all the condolences being over the news. I remember what happened, not sure if he ever had a relationship with his daughter in the end.

Yanbu

I have never heard of him but after reading about his poor daughter I think YANBU.

It's disgusting, tbh. Poor child having to grow up like this.
I hope the rest of the family come good for her now and finally make amends for what her father did to her.

Both parents got the injunction.

I'm a Tory through and through. But I agree, what he did was, putting it mildly, a scummy, shit way to behave.

It's possible to be sickened by more than one thing. And using the weight of the courts and the might of government to deprive a child with disabilities of her rights, and silencing the child's mother, and forcing the child's mother to fight for everything the child needed, are all pretty sickening in my book.

yanbu. revolting man.

yanbu

he will always be remembered as the man who had an affair with his secretary and disowned his own disabled daughter

whatever his political success it will always be over shadowed by this

not really surprised this is what happens when people die others forget what pain and misery they created unless it impacted them

I agree that his behaviour was despicable, and YANBU to be sickened by the tributes.

I haven't heard of him either but YANBU shocking thing to do to your child.

Yanbu. He behaved very very badly throughout the entire matter.

I'm with you 100% OP. It is sickening..

I feel terribly sorry for Sara Keays and her daughter Flora, who is disabled and must now be about 31?. She never saw her father nor heard from him. Parkinson put his political ambition first, and to hell with his own child.

He even took out a court order to silence her.

Flora is not mentioned alongside his other three daughters by the family spokesman confirming his death, so I guess he never acknowledged her.

Just read the article and yanbu.

Agree entirely, OP