Wednesday, 25 May 2022

EDWARD LEIGH MP....ABINGDON WARD RESIDENT GETS A PASTING FROM PIERCE OF THE DAILY MAIL


Good Catholics like to take their lead from the Pope. So one might have expected Tory grandee, Sir Edward Leigh, to have publicly backed the Pope's criticism of the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.

For Leigh is president of the Catholic Union of Great Britain and chairman of the all-party Commons group on the Holy See.

Earlier this month, Pope Francis called Patriarch Kirill of Moscow Putin's altar boy' after the Orthodox leader — who preaches to a flock of 100 million — fervently supported Russia's barbaric invasion of Ukraine

Curiously, the usually garrulous Leigh hasn't followed the pontiff's denunciation. A spokesman for Leigh insists: 'Sir Edward completely condemns Kirill's support for Putin's politics.'

But why hasn't he said so in public? Could Leigh's reticence have anything to do with the fact his aristocratic wife Mary — herself descended from the Russian Empress Catherine The Great — is a trustee of the charity of the London Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Chiswick, West London?

This church has ties to Mother Russia, after all.

9 comments:

  1. Lord Throckmorton25 May 2022 at 11:16

    Didn't the Dame do something on this bugger a few weeks ago. Looks like he's had a bit too much '63 Dow's

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  2. Anonymous25 May 2022 at 11:17

    Leigh is a friend of the Ruskies

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  3. Upright Tory25 May 2022 at 12:13

    My good friend Edward and his family are chortling over the Dame's attempt to embarrass them. As they say, "all news is good news". The boring scamp is dining out on the efforts of the toothless hag to show him up and his kids have gained huge street credibility at their expensive schools. The family links to Catherine The Great go down a ton in The Royal Borough

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    1. Anonymous25 May 2022 at 12:13

      Catherine had a thing with horses.

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    2. Anonymous25 May 2022 at 12:56

      How do they feel about FatEd friendship Putrid?

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  4. Anonymous25 May 2022 at 12:51

    Things go better with Coke.

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    1. Mr X.POSER25 May 2022 at 12:58

      Andrew Pierce tells me Upright Tory that FatEd is fuming about the story. Even tried to lawyer. Thank God we have a free press-unlike FatEd's Ruskie mates. Long Live the Daily Mail!!

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    2. Upright Tory25 May 2022 at 14:55

      Pierce is a serf. You cannot mention his name in the company of Sir Edward.

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    3. Anonymous25 May 2022 at 15:36

      I was at a very minor public school with your hero

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