Charles Kennedy Latest

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33025795

Not much surprise to anyone I would have thought ?

[Baldric]

\\\ I understand that he had a young son, although I am unsure how old.\\\

From the Link you posted Mikey

///Mr Kennedy's 10-year old son Donald and his ex-wife Sarah were in Parliament on Wednesday to listen to 90 minutes of tributes, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and Labour leader Harriet Harman.///

[whiskeryron]

I read some days ago tha NASA were launching a test of a disc shaped space vehicle from Hawaii, does anyone know the outcome ?

[whiskeryron]

Sorry guys, no disrespect intended in this post. I opened a new news page to put my question in & somehow it was added to the post about poor old Chas Kennedy. Ron.
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[Peter Pedant]

Beeb seriously discussing this morning whether or not an obituary should contain the bad bits. or not

they had got the bit you cant put in everything ( too long ) so you have to cut a bit - but which ? The obituary editor rather wrecked his Been Olympian detachment by saying you had to be balanced and fair .... somewhat subjective criteria

The examples the stringer had put in were Mandela Winehouse Biggs Thatcher - only one of whom like alcohol - and I dont recollect that dissident camps were a large part of Mandela's obituary not the activities ( hur hur hur ) of his wayward wife .....

[Prudie]

What surprises me is that his family wanted that as the reason publicly given. It's not necessary. We all know he was a drinker. A haemmorrhage would have sufficed.

[ummmm]

Leave the bad bits out, we don't need to know. Anyone into politics will know he had an alcohol problem. If you're not into politics then you have no reason to care. Why put it into print for his young son to read in years to come.

[Peter Pedant]

th alcohol prevented him from doing his job - so wasnt exactly private

Is history different if we know that Eden during the 1956 Suez crisis was ill from his botched gall bladder op. - or Neville Chamberlain had ca colon ?

[Old_Geezer]

I thought you were making a suggestion for distributing the ashes Ron.

Retro, maybe at some stage you told the spellchecker to learn a word you thought was spelt correctly but wasn't ? Just making a guess.

Yes poor ol' Charles. Another one gone before they needed to be. What I find rather off are the articles in the papers making out alcoholism, because it is a mental rather than physical issue, isn't a disease. We all are at risk of pontificating on subjects we don't know everything about, heck does anyone know everything about anything ? But it saddens me to see how folk without compulsions just look down on others and say it is their choice. No one chooses to have destructive drives digging at them 'all the time'. And as in this case they can have tragic consequences. Some journalists owe those affected an apology.

[Bathsheba]

Ooh, interesting!. Never seen -----answer removed------ removed before.

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[Bathsheba]

@ O-G.....Agreed.

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[lindapalmara]

He was a broken man after the election. Not helped by the tirade and bullying by the Scots Nats who hounded him during the campaign. They were. It fit to lick his boots.

[zebo]

At the end of HIGNFY last night they showed a few clips from his many appearances on the programme, no comment, no eulogies and it seemed very appropriate, it simply showed his humour.

[baza]

zebo, a nice tribute I thought.