Robin Cook
As Flying Rodent points out, it was five years ago yesterday that Robin Cook resigned from the cabinet over Iraq.
Here’s how Cook made his name. It’s gripping stuff if you’re a fan of politics. It’s also a timely reminder that no-one is innocent in any of this, no matter how much wriggling they do.
Part two and part three.
(Cook’s resignation speech: part one and two.)
Posted on March 18th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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And only two and a half years later he has a heart attack, or falls off a mountain, or something…
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+death+robin+cook
Yeah, heart attack, right.
I mean, otherwise, there might have been a REAL candidate to oppose Gordon Brown when The Blair stood down.
“Ready, Steady, Cook” will follow at 5pm.
That was the cherry on top.
Good to see the resignation speech again, and to be reminded that Bliar didn’t even bother to come to the Chamber to hear it.
Was Cook murdered? It’s a tempting thought, but given the circumstances of his death, there is no conspiracy theory that works unless you accept the premise that Gaynor was a security service plant.
I’m afraid I subscribe to the conspiracy theory that people have sudden and unexpected heart attacks every day.
As you will, it seems a bit suspicious to me.
It’s tempting to compile a list of all ‘convenient’ deaths, if i had a decade to spare that is.
Incidentally, Richard, Cook would not have stood against Gordon, but he would have got the Deputy Leadership, probably by acclamation. The two men had talks shortly before Cook’s death in which Cook agreed to back Gordon in return for a senior role in Brown’s administration. I think it is also possible that had Cook lived, Bliar would have been pushed out sooner.