Political Frailty

[Rhys 64]

Just now, Shaun of the Dead said:

I am as right wing and traditional as they come but the lack of democratic accountability in the Lords really boils my piss!It is anathema to me! 

Most of them just check in for their £300 then bugger off to some 4 hour lunch.

[msc 18,450]

1 minute ago, Shaun of the Dead said:

I did!Haha he still has a razor sharp mind.

 

Given his advanced age, he's already looked pretty good in recent stuff. Wouldn't be surprised to see him reach his century at all.

[Sean 6,327]

3 minutes ago, Rhys said:

Most of them just check in for their £300 then bugger off to some 4 hour lunch.

Exactly.Bastards.

[Joey Russ 7,227]

Just now, msc said:

 

Given his advanced age, he's already looked pretty good in recent stuff. Wouldn't be surprised to see him reach his century at all.

Didn't you say the same thing about Denis Healey? 

[msc 18,450]

Just now, joeyruss said:

Didn't you say the same thing about Denis Healey? 

 

Let me check:

 

On 25/09/2015 at 23:07, msc said:

 

- Denis Healey: looked notably weaker when interviewed this Summer, admittedly it was by that Casual Politics guy. He's in injury time.

 

Nope, at the time I was reasonably accurate there.

 

[Sean 6,327]

I just love how so many of the Lords are rejected MP`s.

[msc 18,450]

4 minutes ago, Shaun of the Dead said:

Exactly.Bastards.

 

Lord Kirkhill was earning £156k (per annum?) as recently as 2015, despite not giving any speeches or votes in the Lords.

[drol 11,946]

On 2/2/2017 at 18:41, drol said:

Carlos Romero, former El Salvador president, was removed from the list of the oldest living state leaders as there is no evidence to think he's still alive.

Dead at 92. Curse you wikipedia, you removed a living man!

[msc 18,450]

Well now I'm just going to imagine him checking Wiki one day, and promptly expiring.

[gcreptile 10,972]

On 10.6.2015 at 21:24, mijkediablo said:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/10/sen-johnny-isakson-discloses-he-has-parkinsons-disease/

 

Sen. Johnny Isakson has Parkinsons disease. He says...

 

Still battling Parkinson's, now with back surgery, not holding town hall meetings anymore:

http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/opinion/columns/tom-crawford-congressmen-meet-your-constituents/article_bafa3cc2-b93e-57c5-9447-170edb81450f.html

[guylevesque 18]

Haitian media reporting that former President René Préval has died from  cardiac arrest at 74. He was President during the 2010 earthquake. 

[Thatcher 2,411]

René Préval, President of Haiti (1996-2001), (2006-2011), has reportedly died aged 74 according to former Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. Here is an obituary from the Daily Mail.

Edit: He receives an obituary from the BBC.

[Thatcher 2,411]

Syed Shahabuddin, three time Indian MP between 1979 and 1996, opponent of the demolition of the Babri Masjid Mosque and campaigner against Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, has died aged 82 and he gains a BBC obituary. 

[drol 11,946]

19 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

Syed Shahabuddin, three time Indian MP between 1979 and 1996, opponent of the demolition of the Babri Masjid Mosque and campaigner against Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, has died aged 82 and he gains a BBC obituary. 

A great loss. Or maybe not.

[Thatcher 2,411]

On 07/01/2017 at 20:45, drol said:

These are the 21 oldest living former heads of State/Prime ministers. Let's see how many of them are alive on January, the 1st 2018.

 

1)Anton Vratusa (b. 1915), Slovenia

2)Do Muoi (b. 1917), North Vietnam

3)Babiker Awadalla (b. 1917), Sudan

4)Yasuhiro Nakasone (b. 1918), Japan

5)Konstantinos Mitsotakis (b. 1918), Greece

6)Mohammed Karim Lamrani (b. 1919), Morocco

7)Hau Pei-tsun (b. 1919), Taiwan

8)Javier Perez de Cuellar (b. 1920), Perù

9)Josip Manolic (b. 1920), Croatia

10)Liam Cosgrave (b. 1920), Ireland

11)Prem Tinsulanonda (b. 1920), Thailand

12)Tun Tin (b. 1920), Burma (to be honest I heard he died some time ago, but no reliable sources)

13)Le Duc Anh (b. 1920), North Vietnam

14)Pedro Richter Prada (b. 1920), Perù

15)Jean I of Luxembourg (b. 1921), Luxembourg

16)Mustafa Ben Halim (b. 1921), Lybia

17)Abdelmalek Bernhabyles (b. 1921), Algeria

18)Francisco Morales Bermudez (b. 1921), Perù

19)Cuthbert Sebastian (b. 1921), Perù

20)Michael I of Romania (b. 1921), Romania

21)Luis Echeverria (b. 1921), Mexico

 

I bet half of them will be dead by the end of the year. Let's begin with Michael I.

Number 3 on the list, Babiker Awadalla, apparently died last year according to a recent update on his wikipedia page. Here is the article they use as source.

[drol 11,946]

Yes, he died on September the 6th, aged 99. Wikipedia is doing a lot of mistakes recently....

[msc 18,450]

Must be those sources.

[drol 11,946]

Nah, first they removed Romero when he was alive and now it comes out they kept dead Awadalla for six months. Not so good.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

I bet half of them are dead !

[Thatcher 2,411]

On 14/01/2017 at 04:13, Thatcher said:

Here's a quick list I've made of the 15 oldest living former MPs from the British House of Commons.

Ronald Atkins, Labour, Preston North - 13/06/1916 (100)

Sir Clive Bossom, Conservative, Leominster - 04/02/1918 (98)

Sir Patrick Duffy, Labour, Colne Valley/Sheffield Attercliffe - 17/06/1920 (96)

Sir Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead, Conservative, Brighouse & Spenborough/Scarborough & Whitby - 09/10/1920 (96)

Jack Dunnett, Labour, Nottingham Central/Nottingham East - 24/06/1922 (94)

Dame Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, Conservative, Birmingham Edgbaston - 06/03/1923 (93)

Ronald Buxton, Conservative, Leyton - 20/08/1923 - 10/01/2017 (93)

Baron Robert Sheldon, Labour, Ashton under Lyne - 13/09/1923 (93)

James Ramsden, Conservative, Harrogate - 01/11/1923 (93)

William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, Labour, Luton - 02/03/1924 (92)

Sir Edward du Cann, Conservative, Taunton - 28/05/1924 (92)

Sir Reginald Eyre, Conservative, Birmingham Hall Green - 28/05/1924 (92)

Eric Cockeram, Conservative, Bebington/Ludlow - 04/07/1924 (92)

Mary Holt, Conservative, Preston North - 31/07/1924 (92)

Professor Alan Thompson, Labour, Dunfermline Burghs - 16/09/1924 - 18/02/2017 (92)

I'm pretty certain most of them, if not all, will receive an obituary in The Telegraph or The Times.

It appears we almost missed Professor Alan Thompson, who apparently died on the 18th February and was published in The Times on the 21st February.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

21 hours ago, Thatcher said:

Number 3 on the list, Babiker Awadalla, apparently died last year according to a recent update on his wikipedia page. Here is the article they use as source.

I hope everyone didn't turn up for his 100th birthday party just to see his decomposing corpse sitting there...

[Bibliogryphon 9,581]

Yesterday morning Vince Cable was on the Today programme and he sounded a bit raspy. Might have been the line though.

[Sean 6,327]

On 3/5/2017 at 15:15, Thatcher said:

It appears we almost missed Professor Alan Thompson, who apparently died on the 18th February and was published in The Times on the 21st February.

 

I could have sworn Patrick Duffy died years ago.

[Thatcher 2,411]

Anthony C. Beilenson, US Democratic Congressman for California in the House of Representatives serving 10 terms (1977-1997), has died aged 84.

[CastAway 488]

Former Vice Presidet of Taiwan/Republic of China Li Yuan-Tsu has died aged 94. I'm using the spelling of his name on Wikipedia, not the one in the death notice.