So, looking at Jimmy Savile's connections with political figures and the royal family, I was just wondering- WI Jimmy Savile had decided to go into politics in the early 80's, joining his best friend PM Margaret Thatcher as a member of her Conservative party, and setting his sights upon eventually becoming the Prime Minister of the UK?
Could he have potentially succeeded in becoming Great Britain's PM, with Savile's close friendship with Thatcher getting him into the House of Parliament, mounting a leadership challenge against incumbent leader & Prime Minister John Major in 1995, winning out over John Redwood, and then subsequently managing to win the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election? Or would his horrific sexual misdeeds have been exposed before he managed to succeed in becoming PM, due to the extra media attention, potentially allowing some 'good' to come out of this (and if so, could the Conservatives, or indeed the entire British political establishment, ever salvage its destroyed reputation after the TTL's supercharged version of OTL's Sleaze Scandals)?
And if he had become PM, would the truth have come out regardless during his term in office, and/or his lifetime? Or would they have been kept under wraps, and covered up by public authorities, in the same manner as they had been with Cyril Smith's sex offences, and to an even greater extent? Could PM Savile potentially have used the national security resources to conceal his crimes or even erase any record of them, using his cult of personality as a British pop icon to win re-election against Tony Blair, and consolidate his position as PM? And if so, how much more dystopian could GB have be ITTL?
Could he have potentially succeeded in becoming Great Britain's PM, with Savile's close friendship with Thatcher getting him into the House of Parliament, mounting a leadership challenge against incumbent leader & Prime Minister John Major in 1995, winning out over John Redwood, and then subsequently managing to win the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election? Or would his horrific sexual misdeeds have been exposed before he managed to succeed in becoming PM, due to the extra media attention, potentially allowing some 'good' to come out of this (and if so, could the Conservatives, or indeed the entire British political establishment, ever salvage its destroyed reputation after the TTL's supercharged version of OTL's Sleaze Scandals)?
And if he had become PM, would the truth have come out regardless during his term in office, and/or his lifetime? Or would they have been kept under wraps, and covered up by public authorities, in the same manner as they had been with Cyril Smith's sex offences, and to an even greater extent? Could PM Savile potentially have used the national security resources to conceal his crimes or even erase any record of them, using his cult of personality as a British pop icon to win re-election against Tony Blair, and consolidate his position as PM? And if so, how much more dystopian could GB have be ITTL?
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