"In truth most people liked Crow because they knew he was authentic, in the age of the blow-dried speak-your-weight machine, and that he faithfully served the interest of those who elected him. He had no other master than them; and as the British ruling class used to say, he was the type of man with whom one could go shooting tigers.

Who knows the wear and tear of media attrition on his health? But he never let the hyenas feast upon him, he kept on moving, fighting, right to the end. His last media appearance demonstrated his audacity, and his creative and counterintuitive line of thinking.

At a time when public opprobrium towards MPs is apparently bottomless,he argued for a pay rise for them - but only if they stopped “scratching around”, filling their pockets with dubious expenses, renting themselves out as lobbyists and spinning around the revolving doors between public service and private enterprise. "

www.respectparty.org/george-galloway-pays-tribute-to-bob-crow/

you will spoil ITK's day with posts like this.

He's still sipping on a celebratory but forgetable Port while us true believers have popped the cork on an expensive French champagne to toast the lives of Benn & Crow !!