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Um, vampires and magic? That's got to be vandalism. I'll delete it soon unless it's defended with a cite. LeoO3 06:47, 31 August 2005 (UTC) Well, he is a racist, xenophobe, fascist and mostly likely treasonous swine. Hopefully he is thrown out of the parliament and imprisoned for treason very soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.243.44.132 (talk) 22:59, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, he WAS associated with a crackpot ufologist in connection with a sinister organisation (CPS) which sought to undermine CND by using dubious means. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.217.164 (talk) 20:29, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"As a prominent Roman Catholic Leigh has sort to portray continental European corporatism (the official socio economic policy of the Vatican)as being compatible with traditional British Conservatism but of course the former is continental, Catholic, corporatist eurofederalist and supranational whereas the party to which he beloings is nationist, Anglican, free enterprise capitalist and Conservative." At best this needs to be rewritten, but I don't see that it adds anything to the article unless there are examples of tensions between European corporatism and British conservatism manifesting themselves in Leigh's career. UmbertoM 00:02 12 January 2007 (UTC)

"...all of his children will be in the line of succession to the British throne around the 600th mark providing they are not catholic". Since, presumably, they are being brought up as Catholics, is this phrase strictly relevant? Widmerpool 06:37, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Leigh line

This article has recently(?) been linked from numerous articles relating to his distant ancestors or their seat, in the form [[Edward Leigh|Leigh]], as a proxy for the nonexistent Leigh family. Seems not entirely appropriate. Opinions? —Tamfang (talk) 01:05, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think he is related to Hitler, at least he espouses

some of the Hitler's rhetoric. You know apple doesn't fall far from the tree. 90.243.44.132 (talk) 23:03, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

193.82.155.28

193.82.155.28 has made numerous idiosyncratic edits ...

opposition to abortion → opposition of abortion
- "Opposition of X" sounds to me like a synonym of "opposition by X".

His wife Mary is descended from a sister of King George III, and is thus in the line of succession to the British throne. → removed thus
- Removing thus makes the two facts seem unrelated.

Sir Neville Leigh KCVO → Sir Neville Leigh KCVO
- Linking Sir is overlinking in violation of policy, as well as redundant given the nearby link to Royal Victorian Order. Meanwhile, the late Sir Neville seems a likely candidate for a future article.

An ardent supporter of Margaret Thatcher → An arch supporter of Margaret Thatcher
- arch (adj.) has at least two meanings, and the one intended ought to have a hyphen. Was he indeed one of her principal supporters?

Number 10 Downing Street → Number 10 Downing Street
- Why?! That's just weird.

As such, Leigh was recently offered but rejected the HM Ambassadorship to the Holy See, presumably because it could be just a short-term appointment.
- As what? As President of the Cornerstone Group? It's not obvious how that follows.
- Majesty is irrelevant here; more overlinking.
- Someone please tell me "the HM Ambassadorship" is not standard usage in Westminster...
- We don't presume to read his mind.

thePeerage.com
Debrett's People of Today
- Pointless links to the front pages of these sites, which I've already deleted once on this article and numerous others, inviting links to relevant pages. 193.82.155.28 did replace a third analogous link with a better one.

Also, a bunch of new links will need disambiguating. —Tamfang (talk) 08:04, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As per third point above, Neville Leigh now has his own article. WatermillockCommon (talk) 10:23, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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