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Italian minister of defence Guido Crosetto hospitalised with pericarditis.

 

Not in any danger it seems.

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16 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

Scalise in remission

Good for him, although God only knows what his treatment cost taxpayers!

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On 13/02/2024 at 08:21, drol said:

Italian minister of defence Guido Crosetto hospitalised with pericarditis.

 

Not in any danger it seems.

Crosetto discharged.

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On 06/02/2024 at 11:52, drol said:

Taib Mahmud unwell, and going the Alain Delon route of elder abuse.

Alleged image of Abdul Taib taken a few days ago:

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One of the greatest kleptocrats of our time. It'll be interesting to see what'll happen to his billions.

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On 21/09/2022 at 11:56, Ulitzer95 said:

Would be interested to see a list of the oldest U.S. ambassadors.

Oldest ones I'm aware of (with wiki pages):

Spoiler

Joan M. Clark (wiki) b. Mar 1922 – Malta
Geri M. Joseph (wiki) b. Jun 1923 – The Netherlands
Dave Bolen (
wiki) b. Dec 1923 – East Germany, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana (also an Olympic track and field athlete)

Samuel Rhea Gammon III (wiki) b. Jan 1924 – Mauritius
J. William Middendorf (wiki) b. Sep 1924 – The Netherlands, Organization of U.S. States, European Union (also U.S. Secretary to the Navy)
Frank J. Shakespeare (wiki) b. Apr 1925 – Portugal, The Holy See
Theodore R. Britton Jr. (wiki) b. Oct 1925 – Grenada, Barbados
Donald M. Blinken (wiki) b. Nov 1925 – Hungary
Horace Dawson (wiki) b. Jan 1926 – Botswana
Ignacio E. Lozano Jr. (wiki) b. Jan 1927 – El Salvador
Bruce Gelb (wiki) b. Feb 1927 – Belgium
Frederick Vreeland (wiki) b. Jun 1927 – Morocco
Glen Holden Sr. (wiki) b. Jul 1927 – Jamaica
John R. Davis Jr. (wiki) b. Jul 1927 – Poland, Romania
Francis Terry McNamara (wiki) b. Nov 1927 – Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde
Malcolm R. Barnebey (wiki) b. Nov 1927 – Belize
Donald P. Gregg (wiki) b. Dec 1927 – South Korea
James T. Laney (wiki) b. Dec 1927 – South Korea
Paul C. Lambert (wiki) b. Mar 1928 – Ecuador
Herman W. Nickel (wiki) b. Oct 1928 – South Africa
Nicholas A. Veliotes (wiki) b. Oct 1928 – Jordan, Egypt
Cynthia Shepard Perry (wiki) b. Nov 1928 – Sierra Leone, Burundi
Robert Sherwood Dillon (wiki) b. Jan 1929 – Lebanon
William C. Harrop (wiki) b. Feb 1929 – Guinea-Conakry, Kenya, Seychelles, Congo-Kinshasa, Israel
Edward Peck (wiki) b. Mar 1929 – Mauritania
Raymond L. Garthoff (wiki) b. Mar 1929 – Bulgaria
Jane Abell Coon (wiki) b. May 1929 – Bangladesh
William Luers (wiki) b. May 1929 – Venezuela, Czechoslovakia
Alfred H. Moses (wiki) b. Jul 1929 – Romania
Richard W. Murphy (wiki) b. Jul 1929 – Mauritania, Syria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia
Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn (wiki) b. Sep 1929 – Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Jack F. Matlock Jr. (wiki) b. Oct 1929 – Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
James Goodby (wiki) b. Dec 1929 – Finland
Richard Llewellyn Williams (wiki) b. Dec 1929 – Mongolia

 

Although he doesn't have a wiki page, Allen C. Davis (b. Aug 1927) is also alive. He served as ambassador to Guinea and later to Uganda.

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On 23/01/2022 at 17:26, arghton said:

The Most Honourable Dame Marguerite Pindling (26 June 1932-) Hospitalised with acute pancreatitis in 2007, hospitalised in 2012.

Marguerite Pindling rumored "very ill and unwell" but family spokesman says she is in perfect health because nobody dies in 2024 etc.

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On 25/05/2021 at 01:02, Ulitzer95 said:

Been told that Harry Greenway (wiki), 86, former Conservative MP for Ealing North (1979–1997) is in the final stages of dementia. Diagnosed about a decade ago.

Easy scoring for the DDP... if he even makes it to next year.

 

On 25/05/2021 at 10:52, YoungWillz said:

Don't know much about him, bribery scandal disappeared.

 

All I know is he is a deeply Christian person who believed in beating children at school by the reintroduction of corporal punishment and seems to have had a fetish for hospital matrons.

Harry Greenway reportedly dead: 

 

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NZ Green MP Efeso Collins dead at the age of 49 after collapsing at a local fun run in Auckland, per New Zealand Herald. He is the first MP in NZ to die in office in 11 years, and apparently only made his maiden speech last week. Likely a heart issue as EMTs used defibrillators but could not revive him, but that remains unconfirmed.

 

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On 17/02/2024 at 13:06, arghton said:

Alleged image of Abdul Taib taken a few days ago:

taib.png.48cc045c81368bd9d49d483662b5f219.png

One of the greatest kleptocrats of our time. It'll be interesting to see what'll happen to his billions.

Abdul Taib Mahmud dead at 87.

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Affonso Celso Pastore was born in São Paulo and died at the age of 84,he was an economist . Between 1983 and 1985, presided over the Central Bank of Brazil, during the government of former military president João Figueiredo, the last president of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2024/02/21/morre-economista-affonso-celso-pastore.ghtml

Affonso Celso Pastore, ex-presidente do Banco Central — Foto: Wilton Junior/Estadão Conteúdo/Arquivo

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On 19/02/2024 at 15:54, YoungWillz said:

Maureen Hicks, former Tory MP for Wolverhampton North East from 1987 to 1992 elected with a teensy weensy majority, reportedly dead on 13th February: https://www.politicshome.com/members/profile/association-of-former-members-of-parliament/remembrance-of-departed-colleagues


Telegraph obit for Maureen Hicks.

Telegraph obit for Sir Colin Shepherd.

Above obit helpfully gives us a date of death for Shepherd.

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5 MPs died over 4 days in January:

Sir Tony Lloyd and Sir Colin Shepherd on 17th, Harry Greenway on 18th, Sir Graham Bright on 19th and Lord John Tomlinson on 20th.

That's surely a record in such a short space of time?

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3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer has got a real slapping down at the public inquiry into special forces murders in Afghanistan: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/johnny-mercer-warned-serious-legal-9116102

 

Isn't the complexion of his constituency against him anyway? About to be an ex-MP?

 

The Tories are losing by-elections with huge majorities so the obvious answer is yes,

 

Even so, Mercer is a useless, attention-seeking wanker so  he would lose his seat even in a close GE.

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Swedish MEP Erik Bergkvist has died at the age of 58 years.

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5 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Swedish MEP Erik Bergkvist has died at the age of 58 years.


I’ll excuse whoever runs that Twitter account because English may not be their first language, but aren’t you a native English speaker?

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6 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer has got a real slapping down at the public inquiry into special forces murders in Afghanistan: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/johnny-mercer-warned-serious-legal-9116102

 

Isn't the complexion of his constituency against him anyway? About to be an ex-MP?

Possibly, but I wouldn't be completely certain that Labour pick it up. It's a very White Working Class seat with a strong military background. It's difficult to say with Mercer as he's quite divisive, but possible he gets a better than average incumbency bonus. I can see a scenario where Labour get a majority of say 40/50 and this seat just about holds on for the Tories, whereas less marginal targets may perish. It all depends on where you think Labour's swing is going to come from, is it likely to be greater or lesser in amongst demographic groups which have been trending away from them since at least 2010? Might well be big enough swing to make the distinction a moot one in Mercer's case but it is dangerous to call an election this far out (2017 anyone?). 

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On 02/04/2023 at 12:47, arghton said:

Former Catalonia Govt President Jordi Pujol (predecessor of longtime dementia sufferer Pasqual Maragall) suffered a stroke in September at a book presentation and underwent brain surgery, but apparently he has "perfectly recovered". He's now the second-oldest President of a Spanish Autonomous Community, Jeroni Albertí Picornell of Balearic Islands is a bit older at 95.

 

Yep and now Jeroni Alberti (Wikidead at 96

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19 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Ronnie Campbell has died aged 80. Wiki

Iirc retired due to struggling with severe cancer.

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