Comments on: Assorted deaths

By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:04:00 +0000

Mr Cook was honourable, articulate and generally correct.

He was indeed articulate. Very much so. And that will be sadly missed.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:42:00 +0000

Far uglier than David Mellor.

Typical Tory lies.

By: Old Peculier

Old Peculier — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:04:00 +0000

Cook was no oil painitng but he was bright.

Lightbulb head, you see.

By: Steve Pavitt

Steve Pavitt — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:16:00 +0000

Cook was no oil painitng but he was bright. Nice to see an example of someone rank stupid posting here: Meadway takes the opportunity to post comments on other people’s blogs when he deletes any comment on his own blog that makes him look stupid. That’s a lot of comments.

One commenter a couple of days ago pointed out to Meadway that in a hilariously pompous post about a former French President, Meadway hadn’t even known the said President’s name. Scuttle scuttle by Meadway to airbrush his stupidity while giving no indication that his post is now not the original article. After his triumph in stating baldly that the racist Gilad Atzmon wouldn’t be speaking at this years’s SWPfest, Meadway has not had a happy time and I think we should all be sympathetic to him on the pitfalls of Internet writing: if you’re a fool you’ll show yourself up sooner or later.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:39:00 +0000

That certainly rings a very loud bell – as does a picture with the caption ‘Clare Short – cow’s arse’.

By: Old Peculier

Old Peculier — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:19:00 +0000

Michael - a 'lightbulb-shaped head and frightening, pixie-like features' was (probably) the full description.

Far uglier than David Mellor.

It's important to talk about the real issues in politics and not get sidetracked by trivia.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:25:00 +0000

But he left out "with a lightbulb-shaped head", as highlighted by Viz in their searing exposé of 'Britain's Ugly MPs'.

By: Old Peculier

Old Peculier — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:32:00 +0000

a hideous little gnome, Mr Cook

I just focused on these words and found myself in total agreement.

By: Matt Daws

Matt Daws — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:52:00 +0000

I too gave up on the Bruce Anderson article, but not before I noticed that he’d cunningly managed to turn an article about Robin Cook and the Tories into a bit of immigration/asylum seekers bashing. Nice one Bruce, glad to see you keeping the party-line up…

By: Meaders

Meaders — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:39:00 +0000

I don’t know about them being snouts, stoolpigeons, dopes or rats, but there’s something a bit fishy about both. (Apart from, obviously, the apparent desire to blow people up on the tube.) A-M always looked like a joke organisation, and it was never quite clear they organised anything beyond media stunts; Hizb’ut-Tahrir, by contrast, are far more serious (and notice that they kicked Bakri out). Otherwise, yes – keep Bakri where you can keep an eye on him and ridicule him – not preaching his "martyrdom" from Beirut, or Belmarsh.