Sir Edward Heath

He never gave up an opportunity to bitch about Margaret Thatcher, and for that, I respect him.

A fun Guardian article about Ted Heath

He WAS Sir Edward Heath!

DAMN IT R3, you beat me to it by mere seconds!

Opera queen

I've been to his airport!

Gay, right?

R7 confirmed bachelor

He got into many a row.

I forgive him everything for the interview he did with Dame Edna Everage, in which (among other delights) he actually gets the better of the Dame.

Why is that OP written like he's still alive?

Falsely accused of child molestation by a POS riding on hysteria.

R10 Thank you for posting that interview! Ted Heath got the better of Dame Edna. You can tell he was a little uncomfortable, and I think Edna noticed that and brought up topics he could talk about- music, politics, Salisbury, etc.

Heath had a sympathetic laugh.

R14 what does that mean?

Heath conducting

[quote]As a politician he has tasted triumphed and endured isolation.

HE's been dead for 20 years and he STILL speaks better English than you do, Dolta Marie.

R17 It's AI nonsense.

R17 Well, Maggie, my fall from grace was not nearly as humiliating as yours, so keep quiet.

Restroom cruiser

I'm fond of his bars.

Biscuit sniffer.

He was cute before he wasn't.

^ twink Heath was cuter than I expected

Has to be gay. On reflection, it seems quite unusual - almost every other PM or leader is married with kids.

People who knew him have said he seemed asexual.

Asexual = gay and deeply closeted

The Queen putting Heath in his place after a pompous comment.

I think he never liked or respected women. Part of it was his generation (he was born in 2016), part of it was he was deep in the closet, and part of it was his disdain for Margaret Thatcher.

Heath also sulked for DECADES over Thatcher ousting him as Conservative Leader

[quote] he was born in 2016

So young.

Edward looks quite dapper here, but his mother still can't take her eyes off her knitting.

Ted Heath was a classy man. He loved classical music, gourmet food and fine wine, conducting, oil painting, and being an avid yachtsman, but he was a weak Prime Minister who cared more about international politics than domestic policy. His biggest downfall was letting his emotions get the better of him; he held grudges for years, and always felt he was the most important person in the room.

I think he purposely exiled himself so he could play the refined and elegant "I told you so" (in regards to Thatcherism) martyr elder statesman.

[QUOTE]Ted Heath was a classy man. He loved classical music, gourmet food and fine wine, conducting, oil painting, and being an avid yachtsman, but he was a weak Prime Minister who cared more about international politics than domestic policy.

Was his contempt for women as strong as his love of "finer things"?

R34 I think worse

I dated in America, bitches!

He probably didn't bathe regularly and smelled like a senior center full of unkempt elderly men hoping for a widow who'd scrub his balls during bathtime.

Trust me, I saw those charlatans at my mother's senior center. The widows were so happy to finally be rid of that type, and the cunty old men complained about "women's lib" once they realized they were hateful and unlovable by modern standards. They took precipitous health declines.

The best part: the obvious cookie sniffers were the biggest complainers!

Sniffing cookies in the pic at r32

R37 what? I doubt that.

Edward Heath on Desert Island Discs (1988)

I'm so glad you asked. Like most DLers, I'm not a Brit; and yet he's someone I think about every day of my life from when I first get up in the morning.

R41 why is that?

He called Margaret Thatcher the "only damn radical progressive in Parliament"

Harold Wilson, whose two terms as PM bookended Heath, did a college book tour in about 1982. He came to my college and a few student leaders travelled with him to dinner and his speech / signing. He travelled with a long term aide and could barely stomach us because we knew absolutely nothing about him or British politics. When one of my group mentioned Health, Wilson shot a look at his friend and said "That poofter" or something close under his breath. I knew that from Monty Python and it kind of shut us all up. He'd been drinking, I think, to get through this ordeal.

R44 was Heath a poofter?

Are you American?

r45, probably. Consult his wiki under Personal Life near the end. Yes, and at the time at a large state university in the south.

R46 Fun! I am from the south, too!

r45, Let's say Border state, not Deep South.

A bit too old to have visited with Lady Lindzebelle.

R49 what?

Found an interesting documentary on him from 1998.