-Caveat Lector-
As a fellow Brit, and with due regard for the toes I may have
accidentally trodden on a week or so back when I didn't realise several
listmembers were well known pranksters, I have to say that much of the
post reproduced below is b*ll*cks.
I remember John Smith's death, Andrew. It didn't happen 'at dinner one
night'; it happened first thing in the morning. He suffered a heart
attack at breakfast time (it was on the BBC news and local radio - non
BBC - as well) and he died between 9 and 10 am.
It was midweek some time (a Thursday most likely), and I had a day off.
That morning, I was on Milton Keynes market, with a mate. As with
Kennedy, Lennon and Curtis, I remember exactly where I was when John
Smith died.
Secondly, he was the choice of the Labour Party national executive; we
will never know whether or not he was 'the people's choice' because he
never led the party into an election.
Thirdly, there seems to be some attempt to create a conspiratorial angle
out of his being 'physically fit' and on the other hand having a heart
attack. You don't bother to tell our non British colleagues that Smith
was quite considerably overweight and thus possessed one of the most
indicative 'risk factors' for the development of heart disease.
Lastly, I am a professional in the field of cardiac and critical care.
Anybody can have a heart attack. Non-smokers; thin people; stress-free
types; ANYBODY. I don't care what the Press want us to believe about
this disorder, because I've been there, I've seen it and I know. There's
no way of predicting from someone's lifestyle whether or not they will
have a heart attack; there are only more or less dodgy statistical
methods of determining that one person _may_ be more likely to have one
than another.
As for the 'Blair bandwagon' having influence on these events several
years before Blair became prime minister: gimme strength. The main
reason some people don't like Tony Blair is because he doesn't have a
magic wand to undo in one stroke the appalling and incalculable damage
done to this country by 18 years of Thatcherite short-termism and
general misrule.
R.
Andrew Hennessey wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> I don't know if you guys in america etc know this, but, but for the
> untimely death of a much respected statesman called John Smith from
> Scotland - Tony Blair would have had NO CHANCE of becoming the elected
> Prime Minister of the UK.
>
> Smith was the peoples choice.
>
> Unfortunately for lovely John Smith, he was too much of a 'peoples
> man' and
> was in the way of the new world order - so - his unexpected 'heart
> attack'
> happened at dinner one night.
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