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Charles Kennedy

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By *ce Winger OP   Man
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

RIP

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

very,very sad

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here

Very sad news.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

That was sudden. I quite liked him, seemed down to earth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sad news for his family? Linked to loosing his seat....back on the booze good style?

Guess we will never know the reasons.

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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago

North West


"Sad news for his family? Linked to loosing his seat....back on the booze good style?....... ."

Circumstantial guesswork, but I think you may be right.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Considering the loss of his father and Parliamentary seat this year, it makes you wonder if, possibly, he ran out of reasons to live.

Time will tell.

Bye bye, Chat Show Charlie.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

RIP. No age at all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Agreed. No age at all.

He was one of the few politicians who were genuinely decent and very, very human.

We were on the way to the woods with the dogs this morning when we heard the news and we both shed a tear.

God Bless

Gary

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sad, sad, sad times. Genuinely likeable fellow, his son must be what 10 or so now?

and 55!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

May not have liked his policies as a politician but he was a likeable fella. Sad news indeed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He was a good M.P.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

He was one of the few and best common sense mp's... Brilliant local mp and a leader of conviction

One of the few who voted against the Iraq war, the one lib dem mp who was against the coalition

He was one of the those who had a brilliant empathy with those who he was representing and did it in basic language that we could all understand

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A tragic loss, of the voice of reason. The best pm the country never had.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"He was one of the few and best common sense mp's... Brilliant local mp and a leader of conviction

One of the few who voted against the Iraq war, the one lib dem mp who was against the coalition

He was one of the those who had a brilliant empathy with those who he was representing and did it in basic language that we could all understand "

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

He came across as a proper conviction politician, sensible and likeable. He even did a good turn on HIGNFY without having to be a buffoon.

He also had one of the wittiest lines when he said his party was the only one led by a trained killer but that Mrs. Thatcher was self-taught.

RIP

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I liked him, he was good value on HIGNFY and seemed pretty human. Ming Campbell is cut of the same cloth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A much respected and mych liked politician - a rare breed. R.I.P. Big man.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"He was one of the few and best common sense mp's... Brilliant local mp and a leader of conviction

One of the few who voted against the Iraq war, the one lib dem mp who was against the coalition

He was one of the those who had a brilliant empathy with those who he was representing and did it in basic language that we could all understand "

pretty much this..

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

From what I know of him he always came across as decent.

I put the 6am news on this morning and thought prince Charles had died

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rip Charles the world has lost a great human being

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"RIP "

Awe no, really? I like him, but he had his demons.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

He was most of the things people above have said of him. A genuinely good man.

There's a corner in Tennent's Bar where he and some chums would congregate, especially during his spell as Rector at Gilmorehill. Ferocious arguments mixed with much hilarity.

If I were still a drinking man, I'd raise a Glenlivet to his memory.

He'll be missed.

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

Sad news indeed. They played his Hyde Park speech against the invasion of Iraq this morning. I'd forgotten what a well thought through and (as it turned out) highly prophetic thing it was.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He'll be sadly missed, one of the good ones. My friend who lives in Cannich, Beuly voted for him in the election because of the man he was and despite all his family voting SNP. He had respect from people across the voting spectrum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So young too, sad times x

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By *essieBooWoman
over a year ago

Inverness and everywhere else.

Great man , RIP xx

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

So young too,rip

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Very sad news, he seemed a nice guy

R.I.P.

xx

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Whenever there's a news story like this, you see various worthies falling over themselves to say something nice about the departed...

In *this* case, the sentiment appears to be genuine.

This thread should get more responses than the Tony Blair one

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

A decent man who lived according to his own convictions. He was every bit a Liberal in the old sense and was a victim of the farce that his party became. He will be sorely missed by the radical centre.

RIP

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are a dying breed of politician that are in it for one reason only, to represent the people that gave them their votes.

Charles Kennedy was most certainly one. It is a shame that there are so few like him.

He will be missed in that world but more by his family, such a sad ending for such a great human being.

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By *uyfromchiMan
over a year ago

CHICHESTER


"There are a dying breed of politician that are in it for one reason only, to represent the people that gave them their votes.

Charles Kennedy was most certainly one. It is a shame that there are so few like him.

He will be missed in that world but more by his family, such a sad ending for such a great human being."
here here

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"Sad news indeed. They played his Hyde Park speech against the invasion of Iraq this morning. I'd forgotten what a well thought through and (as it turned out) highly prophetic thing it was."

i remember standing there listening to him speak and for me that day he elevated himself along with some others to a higher position than the majority of his peers..

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Needless to say Salmond is already trying to politicise his death

"Charles Kennedy’s ‘heart was not in’ the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence, Alex Salmond has said.

The former Scottish first minister described Mr Kennedy as “an extremely generous human being” who had “the common touch”.

But he added that he did not believe Mr Kennedy’s support for Scotland remaining in the United Kingdom was wholehearted and that he would have been more at home defending membership of the European Union."

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Needless to say Salmond is already trying to politicise his death

"Charles Kennedy’s ‘heart was not in’ the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence, Alex Salmond has said.

The former Scottish first minister described Mr Kennedy as “an extremely generous human being” who had “the common touch”.

But he added that he did not believe Mr Kennedy’s support for Scotland remaining in the United Kingdom was wholehearted and that he would have been more at home defending membership of the European Union.""

I am sure many more will capitalise on what they think someone no longer around would have said, if they had said it.

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By *ocksalt69Man
over a year ago

cardiff

Another enigma gone too soon.Rip fella...you were one of a kind!

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

RIP X

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By *ratty_DamselWoman
over a year ago

London.


"He was one of the few and best common sense mp's... Brilliant local mp and a leader of conviction

One of the few who voted against the Iraq war, the one lib dem mp who was against the coalition

He was one of the those who had a brilliant empathy with those who he was representing and did it in basic language that we could all understand "

A very decent man.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

As if Salmond's comments weren't bad enough, an SNP official has resigned after an online campaign against the late Charles Kennedy in the run-up to the general election.

Brian Smith, who was convener of the SNP Skye and Lochalsh branch, posted abusive messages about the former Liberal Democrat leader on Twitter.

He described Mr Kennedy, whose funeral takes place today, as a “quisling” and a “d*unken slob” in the tweets and sent more than 130 of them, the Daily Mail reported.

More at http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/snp-official-quits-over-charles-kennedy-online-abuse-1-3800372

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