Earl Gloomy 7 Posted July 19, 2005 Well, not on Deathlist but plenty in the "Real World".Tony Blair said he was a Giant or something. Even Mrs T said something nice (through gritted teeth I suspect). Probably through the gritted teeth of the prson who wrote it for her, in the way in which she would have said it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted July 20, 2005 Edward Heath, ex UK Prime Minister = Keen, white-haired, rude, Marxist MP. or Edward Heath, ex UK Prime Minister = Keen, white-haired, rude, Marxist PM! After all, he was Prime Minister Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted July 20, 2005 Edward Heath, ex UK Prime Minister = Keen, white-haired, rude, Marxist MP. or Edward Heath, ex UK Prime Minister = Keen, white-haired, rude, Marxist PM! After all, he was Prime Minister Smart arse. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Typhoid Harry 23 Posted July 20, 2005 Completes the ten-year-old "Taxman" trifecta: Harold "ha-ha Mr." Wilson (UK Prime Minister at the time)....died 1995 George Harrison (wrote/sang song)...died 2001 Edward "ha-ha Mr." Heath (leader of Opposition at the time)....died 2005 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anubis the Jackal 77 Posted July 20, 2005 Completes the ten-year-old "Taxman" trifecta: Harold "ha-ha Mr." Wilson (UK Prime Minister at the time)....died 1995 George Harrison (wrote/sang song)...died 2001 Edward "ha-ha Mr." Heath (leader of Opposition at the time)....died 2005 How much did you stick on and at what odds TH? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Typhoid Harry 23 Posted July 20, 2005 Don't I wish! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted July 20, 2005 Looking like a good year for ex pm's with Ted Heath sailing into the next life. Whats the odds for Mrs Thatcher for next years list??????? why are you assuming she might go next year?theres still plenty of time left this year! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted July 20, 2005 Looking like a good year for ex pm's with Ted Heath sailing into the next life. Whats the odds for Mrs Thatcher for next years list??????? why are you assuming she might go next year?theres still plenty of time left this year! Because we dont want her to die this year - we want her to die next year as she will most probably be included in the 2006 list. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tuber Mirum 125 Posted July 21, 2005 .....we dont want her to die this year - we want her to die next year as she will most probably be included in the 2006 list. The jury is still out on that one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr Strangelove 14 Posted July 22, 2005 On the subject of the ongoing enmity between Mrs T. and sailor boy Ted, I saw an interesting article in yesterdays Evening Standard. (Itself based on an article in The Spectator.) ..."I really liked her then," Heath told Frederick Mocatta, editor of the Eton College Chronicle, when talking about Mrs T's time as a member of his Cabinet. "She had charm and was very clever... the reason for our enmity is her, and her alone... I made her by appointing to the Shadow Cabinet and having her appointed to the Cabinet." According to Mocatta, 18, who probed further than more experienced interviewers have dared, Heath regarded her 1975 leadership challenge as "a betrayal in the extreme". "I asked him why he saw it as such," writes Mocatta, "and it became evident that he believed he had given her a foothold, and that the betrayal was as much because she had politically scalped him, as that she had changed the direction of the Conservative Party." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady Die 63 Posted July 25, 2005 It's his funeral today & Mrs T will be there. Hope she's next. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
satboy 2 Posted July 25, 2005 When the obits say that Heath never married, do they mean he never married or that he never married ?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady Die 63 Posted July 25, 2005 When the obits say that Heath never married, do they mean he never married or that he never married ?? I think it's a euphemism..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
millwall32 114 Posted July 25, 2005 Give it a few months and he will definetly be posthoumously outed. I do know that he spent a number of years living with a male opera singer and that a great deal of the hostility felt toward him by Thatcher's Ministers was homophobically motivated. I think only his extreme grumpiness and the threat of litigation kept prying journalists away while he was alive. "A LONG TERM BACHELOR" "NEVER SETTLED DOWN" "A FEW UNSUCESSFULL RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN" "SACRIFICED FAMILY LIFE IN FAVOUR OF HIS CAREER" etc,etc. The discreet euphamisms won't be used now that he is in the great sailboat in the sky Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
satboy 2 Posted July 25, 2005 He wasn't very ambitious then, was he? If he was clever, he'd have found someone with a low libido and a desire for the trappings of office to "marry". Helen Clark, the NZ PM, used that tactic to great success. Allegedly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
millwall32 114 Posted July 25, 2005 Ah but.....Ted was not one for a positive PR spin. I think he was almost defying the press to out him. Also he was such a private (grumpy?) man that even a professional beard would have got fed up with him. And then you would have an even bigger scandal "Former PM divorces". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,639 Posted July 25, 2005 Satboy: Is there a web site dishing the dirt on Helen Clark? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
satboy 2 Posted July 25, 2005 Satboy: Is there a web site dishing the dirt on Helen Clark? Not specifically, but most right of centre blogs in NZ (kiwiblog.co.nz, nzpundit.co.nz) tend to refer to her marriage in italics for some reason. We've got a General Election in a couple of months now; no doubt the term childless will be used between now and then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
millwall32 114 Posted July 26, 2005 Thatcher looked to be in rude good health at Heath's funeral yesterday. I think its also fair to assume that she got an energy boost (and possibly a pension boost) from Dennis' passing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr Strangelove 14 Posted July 26, 2005 ... I do know that he spent a number of years living with a male opera singer Who though? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady Die 63 Posted July 26, 2005 Some interesting thoughts here..... http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/archives/011308.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted July 26, 2005 She looked as healthy as my avator - Looks like shes almost raised a smile. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
millwall32 114 Posted July 27, 2005 She looked as healthy as my avator - Looks like shes almost raised a smile. I was actually refering to your avatar, as seen on BBC news website. Think she looks about 60. Undoubtedly the mind is gone but the body, unnatractive though the thought is, could live on for years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr Strangelove 14 Posted July 27, 2005 ... I do know that he spent a number of years living with a male opera singer Who though? Which your not going to answer, probably because your post was bullsh1t. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
