Helen Liddle's time as Britain's High Commissioner in Australia is drawing to a close. She was the former MP for Airdrie and Shotts and also a former Scottish secretary who is to be replaced by another labour party woman, former Leader of the House of Lords Baronness Valerie Amos.
Gordon Brown paid tribute to Mrs Liddle. Back in 2005 Tom Shields of the Herald also paid tribute to Mrs Liddle on her appointment to the post:
'Helen Liddell may be standing down from parliament, but her Raj lifestyle will continue. Ms Liddell and her family are greatly taken with the wonderful country that is Australia and, by great and good luck, Labour were looking for someone to be high commissioner to this sunny land. Only cynics would point out that Helen's departure was in any way connected to leaving a clear electoral run in North Lanarkshire to Dr John Reid.'
Tom Shields in the Sunday Herald, 10 th April 2005.
Tom Shields in the Sunday Herald, 10 th April 2005.
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I seem to remember someone very like her at Strathclyde spending loads of time necking away in a quietish spot in the The Union, that damn word again.
That person was gaukie, really cross eyed?
Anyone know if she was / is gaukie
Oh as well
I was in Oz and a colleague there, with reference to H Liddell, told me that he thought the practice of sending crims to Oz had been stopped some years back
practice of sending crims to Oz had been stopped some years back
It has been reversed since 1997.
Awful woman.
We don't want her back. Doubless she will be taking a seat in the House of Lards, and skimming more money off us. Probably be in the cabinet before you can say Rolf Harris.
Jobs for the b... well, in this case, girls.
I certainly agree with you tris, she'll be annointed with ermine before I can say 'what do you want for tea'.
Dreadful woman with no integrity.
I think contact lenses can correct cross eyes Billy. She did wear glasses at one time, I remember that.
You two (Billy and OR) are too witty for me this evening. :)
Brrr, I'd blanked her from my memory subrosa. Isn't Helen Liddell rhyming slang anyway? Along with Douglas Hurd. Not to mention Jackie Bird.
Her replacement by ' another labour party woman, former Leader of the House of Lords Baronness Valerie Amos ' will have the Australians screaming for a Repblic A.S.A.P..
Not to forget she was Maxwell's right hand man/woman FL.
The should have asked me banned, I'd do the job for half the salary and ensure Scotland was promoted into the bargain.
Mind you the Australians like the Scots so that would be easy.
Wonder if she is
Hagbard Celine?
Looks like it eh?
Bugger lugs, I doubt if she knows what true love is although she knows greed I'm sure.
Wasn't her nickname before she flew Labour's Scottish Cuckoos Nest - Nurse Ratchett?
I don't remember hearing that Clarinda, you're far more informed than me.
She of the hair laquer is about to descend amongst us by the grace and favour of herself, eh.
Surely even in Oz, folk have got the message loud and clear that having associations with the UK Labour party is not the show stopper it once was. It is not something one would wish to credit ones-self with. Nor would past associations with a Mr Maxwell be of creditable merit either.
If herself of the hair laquer has any sense ...She would live out her days in Australia.
Aye, Liddle was very good with her right hand at carrying out Maxwell's little requests, right enough.
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Clarinda - She was/is known as "Stalin's Granny" because of her hard and intolerant views. A few years ago Private Eye did some good pieces on her close relationship to Robert Maxwell.
Aye, right enough. She was known as "Stalin's granny."
...and myself, being frae Airdrie have in the past been familiar with the stairheid gossup about herself.
...and just like yon enforcer Reid, she did as she wis telt as weel.
Wisnaeme, of course the hair lacquer because of the 'french roll'. I'd forgotten about that.
Jock down south, I'd forgottten that too. She wasn't popular here in the east I remember.
Strange that she always looked as if she was around 50 even when young. Some people are like that I suppose.
She might just stay in Australia, what's here for her but £300+ a day for nipping into Yon Place daily.
£300 plus a day, eh?
Handy. But is she in need?
Ever heard how Mr Geoffrey Robinson MP got his hands on a nice little earner? From an admirer, apparently.
Whoring for favours and the consideration of gain is not confined to street corners, doncha know. ... or gent's toilets in Murryfield.
...and many politicos have refined that 'selling themselves' down to a fine art form. before during and after their sell by date.
Aye, she of the hair lacquer did very well out of the Maxwell association, when a great many others didn't. Despite her platitudes of begging to differ.
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I do remember her protests about being questioned regarding her time with Maxwell wisnaeme.
If she's past her sellby date then so am I - naw, she'll get her ermine robe.
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