Cherie 'took Leo to pendulum healer in place of MMR jab'

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From: The Daily Telegraph

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.

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F03%2F13%2Fnblur113.xml

So there we have it folks: could Temple be the man who dowsed for and FOUND those pesky WMDs in Iraq?????

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1. That's impossible.

Only Bush has a direct line to God, doncha know?

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2. Maybe that's why he neded a State Visit to the UK last year:

to consult the runes with Uncle Jack Temple, hehe