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Loosehead | 14:10 Wed 22nd Mar 2006 | News
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Just reading that Humphrey has passed away, anyone know how downing st came to have a resident cat?
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i believe it just wandered in during Baroness Thatchers days. She adopted it. A pre-runner for care in the community maybe?
14:25 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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Thanks Wardy, I heard that Blair booted him out though, good job MrsT was a loving caring person compared to that nasty MrB

14:29 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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i suppose the Blair family dog may have disliked cats. Cherie really needs to change her ways.
14:38 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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Blair wouldnt have kicked him out because The Blairs live at No 11!
The cat was welcomed by Thatcher because as we all know every good witch has a cat.
15:29 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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Yes, Humphrey was a stray who took it upon himself to turn up at number 10. Mrs Thatcher took him in, and he then lived with Major, and briefly with the Blairs. It was Cherie who got rid of him, apparently believing cats to be 'unclean'. He's spent the last years of his life with someone who worked at number 10, and lived to the ripe old age of 18! Lovely looking cat, there is quite an amusing picture, when Cherie was made to pose with Humphrey, it looks like Humphrey was about as keen on Mrs Blair as she was on him.
16:11 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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I heard Mrs Thatcher adopted him from Mrs Slocombe,


Alltogether now, 'Has anyone seen my .....'!

17:01 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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Yeh loosehead Mrs T was a caring person thats why she deliberately put more than 5 million people out of work and destroyed whole communities.
20:22 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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Lucky cat, wandering in when the Thatchasaurus wasn't hungry. I guess the old bat must have had a soft side after all - just a shame that same care and compassion didn't extend to human beings. Still, nobody's perfect, eh?




22:33 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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Baroness Thatcher was the greatest leader this country has ever had. I will even stick my neck out and say greater than Churchill.


I still live in wonderland that she may one day return to politics.

22:37 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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Is it really awful that I agree with WM - well not entirely, but I don't think she was the awful old bat that everyone says she was.


Don't even know if he's joking, but suspect not, but I'm one of maggies children .... the fate of a birth date?

23:06 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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"I still live in wonderland"

Tell us something we don't know. :-)
23:17 Wed 22nd Mar 2006
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I agree entirely with Ward-Minter. Even in hoping she'll return.
21:18 Thu 23rd Mar 2006

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