Denis Healey Has Died

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34434378

[Sqad]

A great Politician and quite a character.

[Jackdaw33]

Well he was 98.

[mikey4444]

A double first at Oxford and a distinguished WW2 record.

RIP Denis !

[Mamyalynne]

RIP.

[Buenchico]

Silly Billy!
https://bellacaledonia.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/doc20060130_pic11.jpg
;-)

[jourdain2]

It does feel like the end of an era. He commanded my uncle's unit in Italy in WW2 and I know Mum wrote to him when my uncle died - and received a reply. We'll always be using 'Healey eyebrows' as a description. R.I.P..

[murraymints]

oh dear.. RIP..

[Zacs-Master]

A life well lived Denis. I had no idea he was military landing officer for the British assault brigade at Anzio.

[ichkeria]

I was hoping he would hang on for the big triple figures. I saw him on the TV a few months ago, and he looked remarkable. I know he kept himself very fit.

[Jackdaw33]

Healey never said, 'Silly Billy' originally. It was used by the impressionist Mike Yarwood in a take-off of him. Healey adopted it and began to use it.

[Lie-in King]

RIP Denis.

[mikey4444]

One of the last Labour politician to really put the wind up the Tories.

[jno]

I think he was the one who first used the term "hinterland", implying politicans should know about things outside politics. He lived a very full life.

[Gromit]

Hilly Billy

[Gromit]

// One of the last Labour politician to really put the wind up the Tories. //

And everyone else when he devalued the £ and went begging to the IMF.

[tonyav]

RIP Denis.

[DTCwordfan]

Useful photographer, lousy Chancellor - Unearned income tax at 98% and "I would tax them at 101% in the pound - if I could." Responsible for the brain drain back then.

Rest in pecuniary peace.

[agchristie]

Corbyn called him 'a Labour giant'.

200/1 that's how he himself will be remembered. Any takers?

[douglas9401]

Got to be worth a tenner.