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From: Charlie on 4 Mar 2010 04:11 On 03/03/2010 22:48, Speedgazebo MOTP #1 wrote: > On 3 Mar, 13:12, Champ<n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >> Died today, at the age of 96. >> >> He was one of the last of the 1945 landslide intake - not sure if >> there's any others left. >> >> Mind you, some responsibility for the formation of the SDP, and >> Labour's 18 years in the wilderness must be laid at his door. > > And still Thatcher lingers on. There is no God. I wonder if, when the time comes, the left-leaning press will be as generous about Thatcher's qualities as the right-leaning press have been about Foot's.
From: M J Carley on 4 Mar 2010 04:19 In the referenced article, "Speedgazebo MOTP #1" <nickaird(a)gmail.com> writes: >On 3 Mar, 13:12, Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >> Died today, at the age of 96. >> >> He was one of the last of the 1945 landslide intake - not sure if >> there's any others left. >> >> Mind you, some responsibility for the formation of the SDP, and >> Labour's 18 years in the wilderness must be laid at his door. > >And still Thatcher lingers on. There is no God. I don't know: she's lived long enough to see her buddies go to jail and her son convicted of a terrorism offence and banned from the US. Maybe there is a purpose. -- Si deve tornare alle basi: Marx ed i Clash. Michael Carley: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensmjc/
From: Malc on 4 Mar 2010 04:38 On 3 Mar, 13:37, SaladDodger <salad.dod...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I suppose BBC will be showing endless re-runs of "One Foot in the > Grave" now. You! Coat now! -- Malc
From: Mick Whittingham on 4 Mar 2010 04:55 In article <8a6cd381-4244-493a-9e0a-5755ab0b4dd4(a)c16g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, Malc <malwhite(a)blueyonder.co.uk> writes >On 3 Mar, 13:37, SaladDodger <salad.dod...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I suppose BBC will be showing endless re-runs of "One Foot in the >> Grave" now. > > >You! Coat now! > The big problem with the Labour party, is it's creeping metrication. Nowadays it's Milli-ban this Milli-ban that. You knew where you were with Foot! I know, I'm just looking were I hung it up! -- Mick Whittingham 'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.' William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.
From: M J Carley on 4 Mar 2010 05:00
In the referenced article, Charlie <nospam(a)all.ta> writes: >I wonder if, when the time comes, the left-leaning press will be as >generous about Thatcher's qualities as the right-leaning press have >been about Foot's. Which qualities? Anyway, given that Foot was never Prime Minister, and so did little damage, any judgement of him will have to be more generous. He also achieved a lot in other areas: he was an early opponent of appeasement, a fine polemicist (`Guilty men') and a very good writer of books worth reading. What did Thatcher do other than start the slide into the `police state' the right likes to denounce and make Britain a nastier, meaner place? -- Si deve tornare alle basi: Marx ed i Clash. Michael Carley: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensmjc/ |