RIP Denis Healey

[maomao]

The bloke in the bottom centre, just behind the lectern looks remarkably like

Spoiler

Looks more like:

Spoiler

to me.

 

[Dogsauce]

 

[youngian]

Cameron showing he's got no class by using the occasion to make a snide political. Prick

 

[Cpatain Rbubish]

He was a man of conviction politics, that alone deserves some respect.

 

[tim]

It's all Corbyn's fault that this has happened!

 

[Pickman's model]

i understand his eyebrows will be buried separately

 

[fishfinger]

i understand his eyebrows will be buried separately

Post #5

 

[Pickman's model]

Post #5

 

[Mation]

Post #5

Too soon

 

[fishfinger]

Too soon

Too late

 

[tim]

In full glory!

Barbara's breasts, Cannon and Ball, and Dennis's eyebrows light entertainment in the 1970's was dominated by double acts.

 

[imposs1904]

RIP? Spiritual father of Austerity.

No, that was Stafford Cripps . . . or maybe Philip Snowden.

 

[Mation]

Too late

Had you hoped for post #3 or 4? ((((fishfinger))))

 

[fishfinger]

Had you hoped for post #3 or 4? ((((fishfinger))))

First!!!111!1!!11!!!

 

[hot air baboon]

...beach master at Anzio...

...and went on the Morecambe & Wise show...

 

[Hocus Eye.]

He was a man of conviction politics, that alone deserves some respect.

You say that but he was never convicted. The way Dave is praising him makes me wonder about him.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You say that but he was never convicted. The way Dave is praising him makes me wonder about him.

Of course Dave's praising him. He's the original Austerity Man. But this came after a period when he did introduce measures aimed at redistribution. I don't know how to judge Healey on what happened 76 to 79. There are echoes of what happened recently in Greece - pushed into these measures by the IMF.

 

[toblerone3]

One thing is certain. He was a complex and conflicted person. But he had a strong presence. He was not a plainskin Lizard.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

One thing is certain. He was a complex and conflicted person. But he had a strong presence. He was not a plainskin Lizard.

I don't know how it's possible to be a politician without being conflicted. Blair appears not to have been conflicted, and Thatcher - such people are dangerous. I don't see much conflict in Cameron either.

 

[toblerone3]

Conflicted politicians are the best ones.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Of course Dave's praising him. He's the original Austerity Man. But this came after a period when he did introduce measures aimed at redistribution. I don't know how to judge Healey on what happened 76 to 79. There are echoes of what happened recently in Greece - pushed into these pictures measures by the IMF.

The original Austerity Man was Callaghan who was the man who made the speech about not spending our way out of recession. He was wrong of course, there is no other way.

Though be fair to Healey I did hear him in a debate on television with Milton Friedman about economics. I remember Healey saying to Friedman that if he followed Friedman's ideas there would be a major political backlash. Friedman's replied that he was an economist not a politician.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

healey was Callaghan's chancellor.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

He had left the army by then.

He appeared at that Labour Conference as Major Healey. they were not yet in power. It was quite common for people who had fought in the war to be known by their role in it afterwards

 

[Hocus Eye.]

healey was Callaghan's chancellor.

Do you want points for that?

 

[toblerone3]

healey was Callaghan's chancellor.

Wasn't Callaghan an OK politician?

 

[tony.c]

Callaghan - the Junta's man.

 

[Wilf]

No, that was Stafford Cripps . . . or maybe Philip Snowden.

Shurely Richard II?

 

[Wilf]

He was a man of conviction politics, that alone deserves some respect.

 

[redsquirrel]

Of course Dave's praising him. He's the original Austerity Man. But this came after a period when he did introduce measures aimed at redistribution. I don't know how to judge Healey on what happened 76 to 79. There are echoes of what happened recently in Greece - pushed into these measures by the IMF.

Which he went along with, if he really had convictions about wealth redistribution then surely he would have resigned.

Quite frankly fuck him, when the time came he showed which side he was on and it wasn't mine.

 

[Dogsauce]

I don't see much conflict in Cameron either.

He's only like that because he doesn't actually believe in anything, just a PR guy.