Lost to posterity of the posterior

When I entered the last two years of my secondary school endurance, it came to a time of career advice and local 'experts' were sourced to provide a spread in the rough field in which a young person wished to progress.  At this stage, I had expressed a wish for working for the European Commission and my counsel was then newly elected MP for Gillingham Paul Clark.  We got onto talking about actual commissioners: Neil Kinnock was the UK's representation at the time and I also mentioned Leon Brittan, who had preceded the former Labour Party leader.  Effusive about the good work of Kinnock, I remember particularly Clark saying, "I don't have much time for Leon Brittan."
Lord Brittan as he became remained a somewhat obscure figure to me.  I didn't realise until recently that he was a one-time Home Secretary.  The reason why I became apprised of his wider political career was because of the fall of the high-profile dominoes after the Jimmy Saville revelations.  In the 1980s while Home Secretary, Brittan was handed a dossier by a Member of Parliament alleging an establishment cover-up of paedophilia that went right to the heart of Westminster.  Like Paul Clark regarding him, Brittan didn't have much time for it, despite the potentially explosive contents.  Instead, he handed it to some Home Office employees to deal with it, the very people who were part of the establishment that had been accused.
Theresa May, the current Home Secretary, through either design or incompetence has botched the inquiry into this dossier through lack of consideration of victims' groups.  To lose one chief panellist, to lose two looks like carelessness.  The inquiry itself is in limbo as May positions herself for a leadership bid in the event of David Cameron having to hand back the keys to No. 10 Downing Street four and a bit months from now.  With Brittan passing away aged 75 from cancer, we will never hear properly what he had to say on the exact circumstances of the document.  But his handling of this very sensitive issue was slipshod at best, part of the cover-up at worst.  Whatever the other tributes, he confirms Clark's assessment.  Brittan was an arse.