This is the direct result of the Jan Drew and John Scumamore type of
scaremongering:
Cherie 'took Leo to pendulum healer in place of MMR jab' By
Tom Leonard, Media Editor (Filed: 13/03/2004)
Cherie Blair did not allow her youngest child, Leo, to have
the controversial MMR vaccine and instead asked a New Age
healer to wave a "magic" pendulum over him, it was alleged
yesterday.
Peter Foster, the convicted fraudster, claims that Jack
Temple, a former market gardener with no medical
qualifications, was also asked by Mrs Blair to swing his
crystal pendulum over a lock of the Prime Minister's hair
and some of his finger-nail clippings.
Foster, who was at the heart of the "Cheriegate" affair,
also alleges that Mrs Blair and Carole Caplin, her friend
and lifestyle adviser, urged Tony Blair to consult a "higher
being" called The Light to find out if it was safe to go to
war in Iraq.
These claims - among others - are the latest to be made by
the Australian conman, a former boyfriend of Miss Caplin and
the man who advised Mrs Blair on the purchase of two flats
in Bristol.
Foster, 44, who has been waging a campaign to embarrass the
Blairs and his ex-girlfriend since a deal with a tabloid
newspaper to publish his life story fell through, also
revealed more details about Mr Blair's "intimate
relationship" with Miss Caplin and the extent of his own
contact with Mrs Blair.
His latest broadside, e-mailed to newspapers from his home
on the Gold Coast in Queensland, failed to elicit a response
from either Miss Caplin or Downing Street.
Although outlandish, the medical claims cannot be
automatically discounted as Mrs Blair did indeed receive
treatment from Mr Temple, a self-styled "homoeopathic dowser
healer", at his healing centre in West Byfleet, Surrey.
Mr Temple, who also boasted of having the Duchess of York
and Jerry Hall, the former model, among his clients, was
introduced to the Prime Minister's wife by Miss Caplin,
whose mother was a close friend of the healer. He treated
Mrs Blair's swollen ankles by swinging his pendulum over her
and with strawberry leaves grown inside the electromagnetic
field of a neolithic-style stone circle in his garden.
Unfortunately, Mr Temple died last month - his coffin was
carried out of his bungalow by four shaven-headed monks in
ochre robes and buried within his stone circle - so he was
unable to confirm or deny treating Leo.
There has been a continuing row over the Blairs' refusal to
say whether Leo was given the MMR vaccine, despite their
public endorsement of it.
Miss Caplin, who wrote a newspaper article last weekend
defending critics of the vaccine, refused to comment on
Foster's claims yesterday. However, insiders insist that she
has repeatedly claimed that Leo has not been vaccinated with
the combined jab.
According to Foster, the Prime Minister "allowed" his wife
to take Leo to Mr Temple, who offered an idiosyncratic New
Age blend of crystal dowsing, energy-enhancing neolithic
circles, oriental medicine, Hebrew teaching, homoeopathy and
herbalism.
Mr Blair had agreed, he said, to Mr Temple waving a pendulum
over Leo to protect him from mumps, measles and rubella.
Foster also called on the Prime Minister to admit that he
allowed his wife to give Mr Temple some of his own hair and
nail clippings.
Mr Temple stored such cuttings in jars of alcohol
preservative and claimed that he needed only to swing
his pendulum over the jar to know if their owner was
healthy or ill.
Foster also claimed that Mrs Blair and Miss Caplin
encouraged the Prime Minister to have the latter's mother,
Sylvia, "douse and consult The Light, believed by Sylvia to
be a higher being or God, by use of her pendulum" to
determine if it was safe to go to war in Iraq.
The Government has attempted to drown out Foster's steady
trickle of embarrassing allegations under a barrage of
contempt for the man making them.
A Downing Street spokesman toed the same line yesterday. He
said: "We are focused on more important things. We are not
going to dignify the accusations with a response."
Mrs Caplin and her daughter have both dined regularly at No
10 and joined the Blairs on holiday. Sylvia Caplin told the
Telegraph last year that she opposed the MMR vaccine. "It
has definitely caused autism," she said.
11 March 2004: Has the Mail lost faith in Foster? 8 March
2004: Caplin denounces 'fantasist' Foster and says Cherie
is still her friend 28 March 2003[Arts]: 'Cherie is the
most delightful, caring person, and so is Tony'
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Cherie 'took Leo to pendulum healer in place of MMR jab' By
Tom Leonard, Media Editor (Filed: 13/03/2004)
Cherie Blair did not allow her youngest child, Leo, to have
the controversial MMR vaccine and instead asked a New Age
healer to wave a "magic" pendulum over him, it was alleged
yesterday.
Peter Foster, the convicted fraudster, claims that Jack
Temple, a former market gardener with no medical
qualifications, was also asked by Mrs Blair to swing his
crystal pendulum over a lock of the Prime Minister's hair
and some of his finger-nail clippings.
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