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Untitled cartoon by Gerald Scarfe (early 1980s).<\/em><\/p>\n

Margaret Thatcher saved career of police chief who made Aids remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Margaret Thatcher helped save the career of a police chief constable who said Aids patients lived in a “human cesspool of their own making”, newly-released documents show.<\/em><\/p>\n

THE TELEGRAPH, 04 Jan 2012<\/p>\n

Sir James Anderton, then chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, faced calls to quit after making the comments, which were perceived as homophobic.<\/p>\n

Now documents secured by the Manchester Evening News<\/em> give an incredible insight into the 1986 political storm \u2013 and show how close the country’s second largest police force came to meltdown.<\/p>\n

It can revealed that the government staged a series of crisis meetings aimed at keeping Sir James in post, and that other chief constables accused Sir James of ‘bringing ridicule’ on the police service.<\/p>\n

The papers also show that senior civil servants were dismayed over the top cop’s ‘religious overtones’ and feared he had a ‘taste for martyrdom’, but that Mrs Thatcher, the then Prime Minister, privately backed Sir James’s right to speak out \u2013 and stamped down demands for a public inquiry into the state of the force. (more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Belgrano Nightmare \u2013 Thatcher Wakes Screaming (1982) by Gerald Scarfe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cartoon by Steve Bell (2000).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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