neilser Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Aged 84 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38764220?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 (edited) Saw him interviewed last year, wasn't looking too healthy. Certainly was a rare breed of socialist aristocrat though. Edited January 26, 2017 by Toepoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 (edited) Together with his auld chums Willie Ross, Archie Manuel, George Willis and Willie Hamilton they subjected Winnie Ewing to a disgraceful three years of intense bullying, threats and harassment between 1967 and 1970. This torment of a lone woman will of course not appear in any of the glowing obituaries that will come out tomorrow. Edited January 26, 2017 by ErsatzThistle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stapes Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 52 minutes ago, ErsatzThistle said: Together with his auld chums Willie Ross, Archie Manuel, George Willis and Willie Hamilton they subjected Winnie Ewing to a disgraceful three years of intense bullying, threats and harassment between 1967 and 1970. This torment of a lone woman will of course not appear in any of the glowing obituaries that will come out tomorrow. Don't know the full story, but I did hear that it was horrendous and one of them even once spat on her. To be fair, a couple of Labour MPs did their best to protect her. Can't remember their names, but one just died recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 4 minutes ago, Stapes said: Don't know the full story, but I did hear that it was horrendous and one of them even once spat on her. To be fair, a couple of Labour MPs did their best to protect her. Can't remember their names, but one just died recently. One male Scottish Labour MP (she didn't name him but claimed he was still living as of 2005) even stalked her around London for several weeks at one point but it suddenly stopped when she complained to Labour's Chief Whip who to his credit must have put a rocket up whoever was responsible. She did say in her autobiography that the two MP's who always looked out for her in the hard years of 1967-1970 were her friends Gwynfor Evans (who himself received daily abuse from the South Wales Labour MP's) of Plaid Cymru and the independent minded Labour MP for South Ayrshire, Emrys Hughes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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