The Leftovers Collective

This is one of those articles that can be hard to word correctly. The words are there, and they’re angry words, so putting them together cohesively will be a challenge.  Just last weekend, a few news outlets ran with the disturbing story of the former Conservative Party campaign manager, Mark Lerigo, who pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing indecent images of children, three counts of making indecent images, one count of possessing extreme pornography involving animals, one count of possessing prohibited images of children and one count of publishing an obscene article.  Lerigo was found to have more than 1,500 indecent images of babies, children, and animals.   49 year old Lerigo, was first arrested by officers from the National Crime Agency in November 2018. Investigators found the images along with a WhatsApp chat with another offender, and they spoke about the sexual abuse of children.  Disgusting Lerigo owned an iPad which contained a total of 1,005 illegal images, inclu

Dido Harding. The perfect embodiment of the irremediably corrupt political system.  It’s fair to say she didn’t grow up in the same world as most of us. Dido Harding is the daughter of the late John Charles Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton, an Army officer and hereditary peer.  She went to a private school, obviously,and the University of Oxford, where one of her dear friends was none other than former Prime Minister, David Cameron.  Coincidentally, Boris Johnson and Sir Simon Stevens (CEO of NHS England) were presidents of the Oxford Union in 1985-86 and 1986-87, while Dido was slumming it in Oxford. Small world, isn’t it.  A Harvard MBA set her up for a few roles within huge corporations, before she was appointed as CEO of TalkTalk in 2010.  But why have just one megabucks job when you can have several? In 2014 she became a non-executive director of the Bank of England’s Court (she chairs its Remuneration Committee), and a director of the The Jockey Club which runs Cheltenha