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Dennis Healy RIP
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Nottseagull
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Does/did he still have his Sussex farm?
A good man with his heart in the right place, like most Labour folk.
Nottseagull
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Wasn't sure about your spelling of his surname so looked it up and found you've managed to misspell both names 
I didn't know he was life-long friends with Ted Heath. Knew he had a good war record but was surprised to discover he was a major at just 27.
I didn't know he was life-long friends with Ted Heath. Knew he had a good war record but was surprised to discover he was a major at just 27.
Tricky Dicky
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Used to run into him in the paper shop when I was at school in Seaford, thought he lived near Alfriston
maltaseagull
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RIP Mr Healey.
Nottseagull
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It's easy to have your heart in the right place when you can finance it using other people's money.
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Never had one, lived in Alfriston. Jim Callaghan was the farmer.
Leyton Gull
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I know Jim Callaghan had one near Ringmer.
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
What a silly billy, RIP
Leyton Gull
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He was talking about David Owen. He said 'David Owen is a very talented, ambitious and successful man ……………….. it's a shame he's such a SH.T,'
Leyton Gull
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At least that's what my dad told me …………………. about 1000 times!
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
RIP Denis
good innings
good man
good innings
good man
Cadiz Seagull
Grey bearded old man
Lived in Alfriston for many years. Kept Mike Yarwood in business for many years too.
Arguably a disastrous Chancellor of the Exchequer though, he had to get off a flight to some conference or other because the IMF inspectors came calling.
But I liked him personally, he was a character, not a bland TV product. With a good turn of phrase; he described being interrogated in Parliament by Geoffrey Howe as "like being savaged by a dead sheep"
Arguably a disastrous Chancellor of the Exchequer though, he had to get off a flight to some conference or other because the IMF inspectors came calling.
But I liked him personally, he was a character, not a bland TV product. With a good turn of phrase; he described being interrogated in Parliament by Geoffrey Howe as "like being savaged by a dead sheep"
Not a view the Chagosians who he expelled from the Chagos archipelago so the Americans could build a military base would agree with.
Lord Bracknell
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A good man and full of wit. I first met him when I was two years old - he was a friend of my dad in Leeds - and I got to bump into him a few times once he had moved to Sussex. The Healeys live forever - his mother was over 100 when she died. A man not afraid to threaten the undeserving rich, he promised to squeeze property speculators until the pips squeaked.
ferring seagull
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A Champagne Socialist but a great man and I believe he was Lord of the Manner in Alfriston.
Lord Bracknell
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He was a beer drinker. And I can't imagine any of the Lords Gage, who have been Lords of the Manor of Alfriston for generations, giving up that title to a Labour politician like Denis Healey.