Gwyneth Dunwoody RIP
Peter Hoskin 4:34pm
Gwyneth Dunwoody - the "Mother of the House of Commons" - died last night, aged 77. I'd recommend you read Michael White's tribute for the Guardian, from which the following is an extract:
"Now that the pendulum has swung towards managerial politics, old stagers like Mrs D who caused trouble are too few. She will be missed. But if she is up there on a cloud today, I expect she is already up on a celestial point of order asking God to make a statement and what does he think he's playing at."
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David Lindsay
April 18th, 2008 4:55pm Report this commentShe fought the Trots and was rewarded with exclusion from office once they had declared themselves "New Labour" and taken over.
It was her father who said that Labour owed "more to Methodism than to Marx". If you still want a party like that, then you now need to look elsewhere.
Perry
April 18th, 2008 7:03pm Report this commentOne of the few rocks that, remaining firmly rooted, caused ripples in the otherwise untroubled flow of the Bliarist stream.
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