Winston Churchill, former Davyhulme MP and grandson of the wartime prime minister, has died.
It is understood the retired Tory politician passed away in the early hours of this morning. He had been fighting cancer for some time. He was 69-years-old.
Grandson of British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Spencer Churchill was a war correspondent in the Middle East during the Six Day War in 1967. He became member of parliament for Stretford in 1970 and later Davyhulme, when the boundaries changed. He represented the area until the 1997 general election when the seat was abolished.
He was involved in The Churchill Society and was chairman of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA). In October, he sent a message to delegates at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, echoing the words of his grandfather and calling for better support and better funding for British armed forces. He had been unable to attend the conference due to his illness.
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Moozer, Bury (02/03/2010 at 11:29)
blue emu, salford (02/03/2010 at 11:46)
Anne Coates, Jersey Street (02/03/2010 at 11:50)
Firstly, you do yourself and your mouthy left wing friends no favours by posting such callous and infantile rubbish. All people deserve respect even if you don't agree with them.
Secondly, have you forgetten (or, more likely, weren't there) when The Blessed Margaret saved this country from the grip of rampant marxism and an incompetent Labour government? Smashing the miners union was an act of kindness to Great Britain.
The party you have planned is nothing compared to the one that the whole country should hold on May 7th when Bliar and Brown are consigned to history and eventually shown up for what they are/did.
MAN-KEY-UNION, MANCHESTER (02/03/2010 at 11:53)
2/03/2010 at 11:36
I'll drink to that!
Moozer, Bury
2/03/2010 at 11:29
So you want another Warmonger?
Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead (02/03/2010 at 12:19)
Quasimodo's Leotard, Paris (02/03/2010 at 12:21)
Why has your comment been removed?
Has freedom of speech and thought been removed from us completely?
Why cannot differing views be expressed?
If there are expletives etc. in the comment surely they can be covered with asterisks.
I resent editorial intrusion and censorship and as an adult I am quite capable of making my own mind up.
Please reinstate the comment.
Thank you.
charliepapalima, Flixton (02/03/2010 at 12:44)
Laura Norder, Didsbury (02/03/2010 at 12:53)
Just a pity the 'mad woman in the attic' wasn't.
Laura Norder, Didsbury (02/03/2010 at 12:54)
Party!!!
tiggerluc, somewhere in shaw (02/03/2010 at 12:57)
Be sadly missed
Anne Coates, Jersey Street (02/03/2010 at 13:00)
Acid, Chadderton (02/03/2010 at 13:15)
Laura Norder, Didsbury (02/03/2010 at 13:21)
Found yourself a new 'pen name' (again), I see.
When will the dummies realise that merely changing your 'moniker', isn't enough to disguise your writing 'style' (now there's a misnomer, if ever there was one), especially when you spew your usual bile and tired old cliches.
State funeral my a**e.
JTC Formerley JimC (02/03/2010 at 13:25)
The Ant Hill Mob , In the Bulletproof Bomb 7 (the Roaring Plenty) (02/03/2010 at 13:27)
Just because its in the American constitution doesn't mean we have it.
Mike, Manchester (02/03/2010 at 13:45)
I know?? The one who can never hide is Ace and his persistent use of the question mark as an exclamation mark??
Anne Coates, Jersey Street (02/03/2010 at 13:46)
Almighty God, Salford - vote Green (02/03/2010 at 14:50)
ergo (02/03/2010 at 15:39)
The labour party was formed in Manchester by the unions to look after the working class.It was taken over by pseudo intellectuals who had very insane motives,and theories,resulting in 90 years endless arguments,and a series of governments that collapsed with the country in economic chaos.This one has proved no different .
Even worse they think they know better than anyone else what is good for us.
My father turned against labour in 1942 when he was on a big parade as a warden at Belle Vue.
Herbert Morrison home secretary addressed them. "Now we have got you where we want you"
They had just passed the direction of labour act and he was boasting what they could dowith them.
What they have done is destroy the old working class and the old communities and replace them with an uneducated lumpen run by people who know more about what is going on in your brain than you do.They are called social scientists, but they are neither social or scientific. So because we are all greedy unpredictable humans all we have is total chaos.
PW, Manchester (02/03/2010 at 16:00)
Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead (02/03/2010 at 16:04)
Sorry Laura, that's gone right over my head, who are you referring to?
Anne Coates, Jersey Street (02/03/2010 at 16:22)
Paul M, Southside (02/03/2010 at 17:56)
I am not partisan either; despite actually studying Politics, or perhaps this is why.
So hear me now you bunch of reprobates; celebrating a death is pitiful. A human died, a human who (honestly) did a lot of good for his constituency. About the only controversy surrounding him was his hardline stance on immigration, although he was demonstrably not racist.
It's pathetic and small-minded to be openly gleeful in such circumstances.
happychappy, Northwest (02/03/2010 at 18:20)
happychappy, Northwest (02/03/2010 at 18:22)