Well, it wasn't actually unexpected, but today we mark the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy, a Democrat senator since 1962 and the younger brother of JFK. This comes just two weeks after the death of his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Obviously, it's a sad time for his family, constituents and the like.
Now that's been said, perhaps it's time to say a little more about him while he was alive.
If there was ever a man for whom the expression "runt of the litter" was invented, it was for him. Oh, where to start? Chappaquidick, his support for the IRA, his ludicrous 1980 run for the Democrat presidential nomination, perrenial Leftism, blah blah fishcakes...
No doubt the BBC will be full of it today. Well, more full of it than they usually are. I suppose with the death of Joseph Stalin the Left have few heroes, well, left.
But the thing that really made my blood boil, was when our idiot Prime Minister decided that this vile old reptile should be given a KBE! Y'know, Gordon, who doesn't do celebrity... yea Gods.
Well, it could have been worse, I suppose. He could have wound up as the Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Road Safety.

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