Just heard Robin Cook has died

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Miss him Gingerbear???
Wot? Like you hung out regularly??
(I'll tell you something though-who needs the news when you've got MN!)

Yeah, sounds like I was a Poli Chick (not dissimilar to Rock Chick). No, seriously, I admired his stance, thought he came out with some sound principles.

I'm sorry for his family for the loss. I also respected the man and his principled stand. In politics today, where pursuit of power and personal gain seems to have overtaken petty considerations like representing the people, he showed that he was a man of honour. It is a sad day, not least because the world desperatly needs more, not fewer, honourable men.

Wasn't very honourable towards his wife though,was he????

Oh Moondog how glad I am that someone said that.

His stance on Iraq, very nearly redeemed him on the treating his wife like an inconvenient old bit of rubbish issue for me. Very nearly.

But only very nearly.

Fault on both sides there IIRC

None of my business what he does in his private life! I bet lots of these top brass political types marriages are just for show anyway! Takes nothing away from the man in terms of him standing by his political principles and, yes, it's honourable to stand up and be counted instead of putting your continued career and personal gain above all else!

Caligula, I suspect that his stance on Iraq was more to do with going his own way in a pompous style than with any real feeling for the proletariat..........
(I live next door to an MP who feeds me juicy bits of parliamentary gossip..)

and I'm sure almost all 'honourable' people have at least one or two 'sins' to hide....

Yeah, but some "sins" are more palatable than others.

There was just something so nasty about it. And I'm sure there was fault on both sides - there always is. But the public humiliation of that woman was really horrible to witness. And that may of course, have just been a media presentation of it, but all the same, it left a nasty taste that never quite went away. Even when he resigned over Iraq, which was possibly his finest hour.

Gaaaah.he was a pompous twerp. Good riddance,I say.

Don't hold back Moondog..................

Did he ever have any kids? Didn't see any mention of them in his obituary.

I think the reason his marriage breakdown was so high profile was because his wife told the press. I'm not defending his conduct at all, but she chose to go public.

MD!!!

But (pmsl quietly too - and dh!)

two or three

2 sons and a daughter, but then I could be hallucinating.

I've started coming on MN slightly worse for wear.....Not a habit to be encouraged,I'm sure.

But hey! Tomorrow I'll be sober and Robin Cook will still be (woops! Make that 'will still have been') a twerp.

So there......

ROFLMAO!!!

bubble I can understand why she did. It may not have been the best response but when it looked like she was going to be swept under the carpet like an inconvenient bit of mess, I can imagine the urge is to scream it from the rooftops is irresistable.

You see,I'm not a complete lentil munching leftie GDG.......

Ha ha ha, Moondog, I'm sure Margaret Cook will no longer feel the urge to dance on his grave, she can take comfort in the fact that a mumsnetter did it for her!

'scuse me

MoonDog

The more vertically challenged of us, object to the word twerp................would you have called him a twerp if he was 6 footer ??

I am so traumatised.

Hee hee!

Does twerp denote short? I never knew that!

He certainly wasn't the most attractive. But Gaynor is no oil painting . . .