Ex-PM Ted Heath "getting weaker" : BBC

[emad]

Former Tory Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath has "recently become considerably weaker", his spokesman said.

Sir Edward, 89, is "resting quietly at home" where he is receiving medical attention, the spokesman said.

He won his first seat for the Tories in Bexley in 1950 and led the 1970-74 Conservative Government.

He took Britain into the European Economic Community and deployed troops to Northern Ireland. In 1975, he lost the leadership to Margaret Thatcher.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4691051.stm

BBC Breaking News says he is gravely ill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/default.stm

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Immortalized in the Beatles song, "Taxman"

Don't ask me what I want it for, (ah-ah, mister Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more. (ah-ah, mister Heath)
'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.

[msongs]

2. uh un Mr. Wilson, uh uh Mr. Heath - "taxman" n/t

[emad]

3. Undertakers on standby......

SNIP
Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath is "nearing the end of his life", his spokesman said.
Sir Edward, 89, is "resting quietly at home" where he is receiving medical attention, the spokesman said.
ENDSNIP

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4691051.stm

[cheeseit]

4. Sad. The last Tory leader not to make me want to vomit on site.

[UrbScotty]

5. What about Maggie?

Would you want to puke on her? I wouldn't. :sarcasm:

[cheeseit]

7. If you tried it would probably just be evaporated by her demonic aura

Although the thing really making me want to puke at the moment is my own apparent inability to spell "sight".:dunce:

[UrbScotty]

6. Didn't Callaghan die a few months ago? (nt)

[cheeseit]

8. Yeah, in March.

Hat-trick....?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. Yes he did

Yet the Evil One still draws breath.

[thebigidea]

10. Monty Python's "Teach Yourself Heath"

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/audio/zipped/Monty_Python_-_Teach_Yourself_Heath.zip

some of it still stands up today, I'd say.... a fun Idle/Palin oddity.

[cheeseit]

11. Former PM Sir Edward Heath Dies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4691051.stm

[fedsron2us]

12. RIP Ted

You were PM for half of my teenage years.

Despite your many failings I know you were an active opponent of appeasement in the 1930's and that you fought fascism on the battle field.

I would choose you over Blair any day.