This weeks RIP's........

[Lost Leopard Spot]

he's responsible for the provision of care for many young homeless people in London over many years.

homelessness is a fecking atrocity...

Yet unfortunately about to become an even bigger problem.

In Britain, in this day and age, nobody should be homeless. (And you cnuts don't come on here saying people 'choose' to be homeless etc.)

Two points: It'll be an even massiver problem if we have millions of migrants to house just like that.
And b) [contoversially] I personally was homeless once. Looking back on it from a stance of thirty eight years I could'a done a lot more to ensure I never reached that state... but I didn't. ( It all depends on a definition of 'choice' I suppose.)

[Montreal Wanderer]

Farnworth's own Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson at 85. He had a short but brilliant career as a fast bowler on the 1950s. RIP.

[TANGODANCER]

Farnworth's own Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson at 85. He had a short but brilliant career as a fast bowler on the 1950s. RIP.

Aye, put the wind up few antipodean batsmen did Frank along with Fred Trueman and Brian Statham . Tyson has been called the fastest bowler ever.

[Worthy4England]

Farnworth's own Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson at 85. He had a short but brilliant career as a fast bowler on the 1950s. RIP.

Aye, put the wind up few antipodean batsmen did Frank along with Fred Trueman and Brian Statham . Tyson has been called the fastest bowler ever.

Indeed - along with quite a few others!

RIP Frank.

[bobo the clown]

Grannie Heather in the Archers. Good. Thank goodness for that. Just Nasty Rob to go now.

[Bruce Rioja]

Farnworth's own Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson at 85. He had a short but brilliant career as a fast bowler on the 1950s. RIP.

Aye, put the wind up few antipodean batsmen did Frank along with Fred Trueman and Brian Statham . Tyson has been called the fastest bowler ever.

I saw Sylvester Clarke bowl for Farnworth Social Circle against Daisy Hill when I was a boy. Sylvester Clarke bowling at Javed Miandad in the Bolton Association. No-one believes me but I absolutely promise you that it's true.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Farnworth's own Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson at 85. He had a short but brilliant career as a fast bowler on the 1950s. RIP.

Aye, put the wind up few antipodean batsmen did Frank along with Fred Trueman and Brian Statham . Tyson has been called the fastest bowler ever.

I saw Sylvester Clarke bowl for Farnworth Social Circle against Daisy Hill when I was a boy. Sylvester Clarke bowling at Javed Miandad in the Bolton Association. No-one believes me but I absolutely promise you that it's true.

I don't see why no one would believe you - Gary Sobers played for Radcliffe in the Lancashire leagues in the late 1950's early 60's. If you could see the world's greatest all-rounder why not Pakistan's greatest batsman vs one of Windies most feared bowlers?

[Bruce Rioja]

Farnworth's own Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson at 85. He had a short but brilliant career as a fast bowler on the 1950s. RIP.

Aye, put the wind up few antipodean batsmen did Frank along with Fred Trueman and Brian Statham . Tyson has been called the fastest bowler ever.

I saw Sylvester Clarke bowl for Farnworth Social Circle against Daisy Hill when I was a boy. Sylvester Clarke bowling at Javed Miandad in the Bolton Association. No-one believes me but I absolutely promise you that it's true.

I don't see why no one would believe you - Gary Sobers played for Radcliffe in the Lancashire leagues in the late 1950's early 60's. If you could see the world's greatest all-rounder why not Pakistan's greatest batsman vs one of Windies most feared bowlers?

Here's a pair of bare buttocks. (_!_)

[Hoboh]

Dennis Healey. RIP

Best quotes
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”

On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”

On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”

To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”

In a newspaper interview in 1997:
Being chancellor is not a woman’s job. There’s a difference between the sexes, and people who don’t know that don’t know what people are like with their clothes off. So there.”

While campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection:
Healey without Benn would be like Torvill without Dean. I can’t get the bugger off my back.”

Speaking in the House of Commons in February 1990:
While the rest of Europe is marching to confront the new challenges, the prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] is shuffling along in the gutter in the opposite direction, like an old bag lady, muttering imprecations at anyone who catches her eye.”

However, he denied ever having said, as chancellor:
I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”

The one in bold is my favourite

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Dennis Healey. RIP

Best quotes
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”

On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”

On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”

To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”

In a newspaper interview in 1997:
Being chancellor is not a woman’s job. There’s a difference between the sexes, and people who don’t know that don’t know what people are like with their clothes off. So there.”

While campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection:
Healey without Benn would be like Torvill without Dean. I can’t get the bugger off my back.”

Speaking in the House of Commons in February 1990:
While the rest of Europe is marching to confront the new challenges, the prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] is shuffling along in the gutter in the opposite direction, like an old bag lady, muttering imprecations at anyone who catches her eye.”

However, he denied ever having said, as chancellor:
I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”

The one in bold is my favourite

Not many politicians I respect, but Healy is up there with Mandela, Castro, Churchill, Dayell, and Powell.

[Harry Genshaw]

Dennis Healey. RIP

Best quotes
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”

On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”

On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”

To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”

In a newspaper interview in 1997:
Being chancellor is not a woman’s job. There’s a difference between the sexes, and people who don’t know that don’t know what people are like with their clothes off. So there.”

While campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection:
Healey without Benn would be like Torvill without Dean. I can’t get the bugger off my back.”

Speaking in the House of Commons in February 1990:
While the rest of Europe is marching to confront the new challenges, the prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] is shuffling along in the gutter in the opposite direction, like an old bag lady, muttering imprecations at anyone who catches her eye.”

However, he denied ever having said, as chancellor:
I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”

The one in bold is my favourite

Not many politicians I respect, but Healy is up there with Mandela, Castro, Churchill, Dayell, and Powell.

Powell?

[Harry Genshaw]

My main recollection of Healy was when he accused Thatcher of 'glorifying in slaughter' after the Falklands and was then forced to backtrack. Anyway a life of public service. Rip Denis

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Dennis Healey. RIP

Best quotes
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”

On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”

On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”

To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”

In a newspaper interview in 1997:
Being chancellor is not a woman’s job. There’s a difference between the sexes, and people who don’t know that don’t know what people are like with their clothes off. So there.”

While campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection:
Healey without Benn would be like Torvill without Dean. I can’t get the bugger off my back.”

Speaking in the House of Commons in February 1990:
While the rest of Europe is marching to confront the new challenges, the prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] is shuffling along in the gutter in the opposite direction, like an old bag lady, muttering imprecations at anyone who catches her eye.”

However, he denied ever having said, as chancellor:
I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”

The one in bold is my favourite

Not many politicians I respect, but Healy is up there with Mandela, Castro, Churchill, Dayell, and Powell.

Powell?

Just because someone has opinions that aren't part of the zeitgeist doesn't mean that what they expressed was either wrong or necessarily reported correctly. Powell is consistently remembered for his "Rivers of Blood" speach, but incorrectly remembered for being a racist but should have been for being a forcaster of what had inflicted itself on US society potentially being exported to these shores
Nothing in his political life made him, like most politicians, a cynical self serving cipher. Hence why he's in my list. I could, and will add Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and Genghis Khan.

[Harry Genshaw]

Aside from the dubious race speech didn't he keep swapping sides to get some kind of power or be taken seriously?

As for Mao. Feck me

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Aside from the dubious race speech didn't he keep swapping sides to get some kind of power or be taken seriously?

As for Mao. Feck me

He (Powell) swapped parties, and he explained why, mostly because they didn't match his ambition.
Mao Zedong never hesitated in his drive to transform the average Chinese peasant into a force to be reckoned with.
His policies stank, he had no idea of economics, he was fully and indubitably racist in his take on where Han Chinese stood in the world, but he is the basis for why China is now what it is, and not some feeble reflection of what Africa is now what it is. For that reason (as a politician, not as a hero, or human being) I respect him...

[Hoboh]

Dennis Healey. RIP

Best quotes
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”

On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”

On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”

To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”

In a newspaper interview in 1997:
Being chancellor is not a woman’s job. There’s a difference between the sexes, and people who don’t know that don’t know what people are like with their clothes off. So there.”

While campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection:
Healey without Benn would be like Torvill without Dean. I can’t get the bugger off my back.”

Speaking in the House of Commons in February 1990:
While the rest of Europe is marching to confront the new challenges, the prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] is shuffling along in the gutter in the opposite direction, like an old bag lady, muttering imprecations at anyone who catches her eye.”

However, he denied ever having said, as chancellor:
I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”

The one in bold is my favourite

Not many politicians I respect, but Healy is up there with Mandela, Castro, Churchill, Dayell, and Powell.

Powell?

Just because someone has opinions that aren't part of the zeitgeist doesn't mean that what they expressed was either wrong or necessarily reported correctly. Powell is consistently remembered for his "Rivers of Blood" speach, but incorrectly remembered for being a racist but should have been for being a forcaster of what had inflicted itself on US society potentially being exported to these shores
Nothing in his political life made him, like most politicians, a cynical self serving cipher. Hence why he's in my list. I could, and will add Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and Genghis Khan.

Now your talking!

[Bruce Rioja]

Dennis Healey. RIP

Best quotes
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”

On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”

On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”

To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”

In a newspaper interview in 1997:
Being chancellor is not a woman’s job. There’s a difference between the sexes, and people who don’t know that don’t know what people are like with their clothes off. So there.”

While campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection:
Healey without Benn would be like Torvill without Dean. I can’t get the bugger off my back.”

Speaking in the House of Commons in February 1990:
While the rest of Europe is marching to confront the new challenges, the prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] is shuffling along in the gutter in the opposite direction, like an old bag lady, muttering imprecations at anyone who catches her eye.”

However, he denied ever having said, as chancellor:
I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”

The one in bold is my favourite

You have a favourite?

I'm struggling to decide which one is most cringe-worthy. In fact, deciding which one is least cringe-worthy is more difficult. Nae Churchill, was he, the lad? Is he off the hook yet, by the way?

[Hoboh]

Dennis Healey. RIP

Best quotes
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”

On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”

On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”

To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”

In a newspaper interview in 1997:
Being chancellor is not a woman’s job. There’s a difference between the sexes, and people who don’t know that don’t know what people are like with their clothes off. So there.”

While campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection:
Healey without Benn would be like Torvill without Dean. I can’t get the bugger off my back.”

Speaking in the House of Commons in February 1990:
While the rest of Europe is marching to confront the new challenges, the prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] is shuffling along in the gutter in the opposite direction, like an old bag lady, muttering imprecations at anyone who catches her eye.”

However, he denied ever having said, as chancellor:
I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”

The one in bold is my favourite

You have a favourite?

I'm struggling to decide which one is most cringe-worthy. In fact, deciding which one is least cringe-worthy is more difficult. Nae Churchill, was he, the lad? Is he off the hook yet, by the way?

I thought you'd have loved the Prescott one

[Il Pirate]

Dennis Healey. RIP

Best quotes
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”

On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”

On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”

To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”

In a newspaper interview in 1997:
Being chancellor is not a woman’s job. There’s a difference between the sexes, and people who don’t know that don’t know what people are like with their clothes off. So there.”

While campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield byelection:
Healey without Benn would be like Torvill without Dean. I can’t get the bugger off my back.”

Speaking in the House of Commons in February 1990:
While the rest of Europe is marching to confront the new challenges, the prime minister [Margaret Thatcher] is shuffling along in the gutter in the opposite direction, like an old bag lady, muttering imprecations at anyone who catches her eye.”

However, he denied ever having said, as chancellor:
I want to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.”

The one in bold is my favourite

Not many politicians I respect, but Healy is up there with Mandela, Castro, Churchill, Dayell, and Powell.

Powell?

Just because someone has opinions that aren't part of the zeitgeist doesn't mean that what they expressed was either wrong or necessarily reported correctly. Powell is consistently remembered for his "Rivers of Blood" speach, but incorrectly remembered for being a racist but should have been for being a forcaster of what had inflicted itself on US society potentially being exported to these shores
Nothing in his political life made him, like most politicians, a cynical self serving cipher. Hence why he's in my list. I could, and will add Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and Genghis Khan.

Part of the zeitgeist?? What, not being a racist ?

He was a racist.

And a cynical self serving cypher.

Have you ever read/heard/understood his 'rivers of blood' speech?

And it's speech. Not speach, as in peach.

He was a tory racist cnut.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^ Well then we disagree. Not about the speach like peach, on that you're absolutely correct.
And I was merely listing those who I thought were politicians I could respect, having plainly made clear there were very few of the fxckers, but of those listed I was neither claiming I liked either them as people nor their particular viewpoint.