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Ken Burch

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7. The prime minister the UK should have had(although, at the same time, it should have lost the "K")

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:16 AM

Mar 2014

He stood for what he believed in right up to the end(unlike his party, which ended up choosing not to believe in anything but trying to win elections for winning elections' sake and thus ended up making their last three victories meaningless).

A well-lived life.

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