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Labour leader John Smith Dies, May 1994

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The Labour leader John Smith died on 12 May 1994 in St Bartholomew's hospital London after two serious heart attacks.

The 55-year-old leader of the opposition and the man expected to be Britain's next Prime Minister suffered his first attack at his central London flat.

He had a second heart attack in the ambulance on the way to hospital and was pronounced dead at 0915 BST.

Clip features Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Paddy Ashdown, John Major, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Benn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/12/newsid_2550000/255080...

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  • @cuntylishus Shut up.

  • and then Blair slithers on to the scene

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  • @Itsmeeman1. Well said mate, The day John Smith died, So did the Real Labour Party.

  • The day the UK was robbed and left with Blair as a replacement ;-\ Does make me ponder what could of been.

  • @TheJaaysog David Blunkett's guide dog

  • its all done in plain view of the public now no hiding crime the people are brainwashed into thinking the not normal is now the normal

  • @offpatsmile The nation was so sick of Thatcher and her cronies that a monkey from Mars would have won. The people took one look at Smith and knew that he was the guy they were going to vote for without a second thought. Blair would not have made the same impression on the people. Too young, too fake and shiny(no Martian monkey but the next best thing to one). You know what I mean.  Smith just wasn't around long enough to see himself voted into office.

  • @Itsmeeman1 when exactly was Smith voted into "power"?? - he was voted internally to the party - leader of the labour opposition, but never won a general election.

    Which is sad because I think he would have been a great prime minister.

  • For, not Fall. My spelling error there!

  • Fall All non-Brits that don't know, John Smith was VOTED into power with a huge majority against the Conservative party, NOT Tony Blair, who ended up with the position by default.

    John Smith was a decent and honourable man that the British people wanted in power to help sweep away the perverted corruption of the previous Thatcher party.

    He then 'suddenly' dies from a heart attack.

    Given the current retrospect look at the past decade's lies and BS of 9/11, Iraq etc. did he die of natural causes?

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