cheesemonster2005 Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Independent - News Headline Another great MP lost after the deaths of Robin Cook and Mo Mowlam in 2005? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesemonster2005 Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 Shit, is Robin Cook dead? never knew that Yep, died 6th August. I was suprised that the death was so low key considering the huge support he had. I had a lot of respect for him as a Labour MP compared with most of the other Blairites. As for Tony Banks though I don't know too much about him except that he had an immense love of sport. * edited to correct my grammar showing that Robin Cook is dead and not going to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I was never a great fan of Tony Banks but he was one of the few 'colourful' characters left in an increasingly bland and conformist parliament. What I did like about him, however, were his descriptions of some of his fellow MPs: William Hague, he described as a 'foetus.' Of Margaret Thatcher, he once said that she had the 'sensitivity of a sex-starved boa-constrictor' and, on another occasion, that she was a 'half mad old bag lady.' Kenneth Clarke was 'a pot-bellied old soak,' and the Liberal Democrats were 'woolly-hatted, muesli-eating, Tory lick-spittles'. I only wish that there were a few more MPs like that because, whether or not I agree with their opinions, at least they're more likely to say what they think than are the Blair-clones and cronies. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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