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Obviously wanking yourself to death with an orange in your mouth and stockings on is the classic MP death, but does anyone know of any other interesting ways members of parliament have left this mortal coil?

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Former Glasgow MP Tam McMillan died after falling off a bus in 1980 (though I feel there was a lot left out from the public there). His successor later died, while an MP, of a heart attack on a London tube after a jog, and his successor was jailed for wilful fire raising.

 

Otherwise, Evan Durbin drowned trying to rescue his own daughter from drowning, and Walter Smiles died in a ferry sinking.

 

Going considerably further back, we've got William Huskisson being run over by a train in 1830, and I'm pretty sure MPs died in duels in the 1800s, but that's stretching things considerably.

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Tom Hayden, activist, one of the Chicago 7 (and Jane Fonda's ex) dies aged 76.

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edit: beat me to it ! ;)

 

Sorry my friend! :blush:

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Former President of Uruguay, Jorge Batlle, dies at 88. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3869194/Former-Uruguayan-President-Jorge-Batlle-dies-88.html

 

DDP hit for Sir Candy's All Stars.

 

A day shy of the birthday bonus. Ouch...

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MP Nick Boles reveals a cancerous tumour has been found in his head.

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Former Cambodian prime Minister Pen Sovan is dead at 80. Gives us hope for Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/cambodian-former-pm-dies-at-80-116102900572_1.html

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Former Massachusetts Speaker of the House Salvatore Di Masi on his way out:

 

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2016/10/hearing_tomorrow_on_dimasis_appeal_to_be_let_out_of

 

Same fame level as Thomas Libous, who failed to obit for the DDP, so it's a gamble.

 

(He's on OoO's farewell list, by the way.)

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Tina Anselmi, first Italian woman to become Minister, died today aged 89. Forgive me, but I could not stand her.

http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2016/11/01/news/morta_tina_anselmi-151062213/

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Good lord, he actually died?

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Good lord, he actually died?

 

Surprised he lasted so long, I was pretty sure he was terminal, thought he was a definite for the first rather than the last quarter of this year.

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Good lord, he actually died?

 

Surprised he lasted so long, I was pretty sure he was terminal, thought he was a definite for the first rather than the last quarter of this year.

 

 

He'd been doing his "I'm totally dying, take pity" thing for so long (at least six/seven years now) one's cynicism had been breached.

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And the chap with all the Ss and Js in his name.

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Finally 2016 is being kinder to us. Never been so happy since Zsa Zsa croaked it.

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Finally 2016 is being kinder to us. Never been so happy since Zsa Zsa croaked it.
Wait. Zsa Zsa is dead? :o
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That's a massive score in the Hares pool, pretty sure somebody had him.

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