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Sir Malcolm

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1. At 03:47 PM on 23 Apr 2007, Anne P. wrote:

   I quite thought he had died already - Yeltsin that is not Malcolm Rifkind.

2. At 03:57 PM on 23 Apr 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   Sir Malcolm thought that, did he? Heart failure, I gather. I seem to remember he was a bit of a bon viveur and liked his vodka.

   A sobering thought, perhaps, at the NC bar.

   I wonder what Mr. Gorbachev really makes of the matter. Perhaps Radio 4 will broadcast again a very interesting play about his downfall that I heard a few months ago.

3. At 03:58 PM on 23 Apr 2007, Belinda wrote:

   Well didn't he have a quintuple by-pass followed by a sever bout of pneumonia? I think I would be feeling rather sorry for myself after that. I had pneumonia earlier this year and that was enough to have me looking around at the policies of burials at sea.

4. At 03:59 PM on 23 Apr 2007, witchiwoman wrote:

   Apologies for badly phrased post - it reads like a translation!

5. At 04:02 PM on 23 Apr 2007, witchiwoman wrote:

   All I can recall of Mr Yeltsin is his drunken dancing; it seems there was much more to him than that. Look forward to PM expanding my knowledge!
   

6. At 04:12 PM on 23 Apr 2007, wrote:

   Is Boris's departure messing up your running order then? How inconsiderate. Just when you thought it was all sorted out.

   I see they mentioned "heart problems" in relation to his health just now on the R4 news. No mention of "alcohol problems" which probably contributed as much if not more to his demise.

7. At 04:13 PM on 23 Apr 2007, wrote:

   I enjoyed the play as well, Sis. Rifkind, now there's a voice with resonance. Part of the Tory equivalent of the Labour McMafia.
   xx
   ed

8. At 04:19 PM on 23 Apr 2007, wrote:

   One imagines that he will be fairly well embalmed already?

   I still remember vividly his personal bravery at the time of the attempted counter-revolution whilst Gorbie was down in his dacha on the Black Sea. Bringing the army onside and preventing the overthrow of the perestroika/glasnost state which Gorbie had started to create. And reducing Gorbie to a meaningless cypher, paving the way for his assumption of power, backed principally by the billionaire oligarchs whom his policies had created, and Abramovich in particular (confirmed by general Khorchakov).

   How he was 'sleeping' when his plane landed in Eire for talks with the Irish President. His attempt to conduct a German orchestra, his dancing antics on TV. The man was a legend, if sometimes for the wrong reasons.

   Si.

9. At 04:48 PM on 23 Apr 2007, witchiwoman wrote:

   Speaking of running orders I submitted mine the other way around....thats a new deviation on the usual service!

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11. At 05:36 PM on 23 Apr 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Malcolm Rifkind is still with us?! Blimey!! Next you'll be telling me Thatcher's still hanging on in there!...

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13. At 06:48 PM on 23 Apr 2007, Frances O wrote:

    Rifkind won't be around for long. He's MP for Ken & Chelsea (or is that just Kensington now, after the boundary changes?)

    It's the MPs' graveyard, the place where they're sent after they get chucked out by their last constituants.

14. At 09:07 PM on 23 Apr 2007, wrote:

    Appy: I haven't been to that big party in Trafalgar Square yet, so she must be...

    Fifi