Talk:Michael Heseltine
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[edit] Merge here of Hezza
I suggested on Talk:Hezza that Hezza was unencyclopedic, but hoped that people would fix it rather than me taking it to AfD which I will do if it is not fixed. It is now been suggested that it be merged here. I can see see only a few words being merged, such as "His nickname was "Hezza". The rest is of no relevance and in my opinion should be deleted, but I prefer to let the only editor of that article time to alter it. --Bduke 08:27, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ode To Hezeltine
A whole two Google hits for the words to this poem. Is it really relevant here? Much as I sympathise with the sentiments, it seems more like something penned in someone's bedroom than a Wiki-worthy reference.
- And if everyone takes that attitude, it'll stay with two Google hits. Keep it on! As long as references are cited, they are valid. It's often quite hard to find what are called "valid references" for opinion of average miners, etc. If you don't accept things like this, how are we supposed to document their feelings? Remember that most miners did not trust reporters one jot in this period.
I think it shall have to be removed now, seeing as the link leads to nowhere. Let's replace it with the Chumbawamba song.
[edit] Controversy
Most people have a section called this: one here could include his remark during the early '90s recession, that company's with cash flow problems should pay all their bills late. I think it's worth mentioning. Malick78 (talk) 11:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Julian Critchley quotes Hezza's as saying that he staved off his near-bankruptcy of the early 1960s by only paying bills when writs were about to expire, and mentions somebody (Hezza's accountant's wife?) saying "that's nothing. I remember when the cheques went out with only one signature", ie. null and void until returned for the other partner to sign. In his memoirs Hezza does not specifically deny this but instead tells a tortuous story of how as payments came in he was able to release pre-prepared cheques for payments of various bills. It's unclear even from a close reading of Hezza's own memoirs whether his net personal worth was positive or negative at this point. (It should of course be made clear that Hezza did pay his bills - he just staved off bankruptcy by taking his time about it.) Then in the early 1990s he got into trouble by joking about it in some after-dinner speech or other, iirc making the point that large companies who can afford good lawyers often drag out payment while squeezing small businesses.
[edit] Switch
How did MH come to switch from a constituency in Devon to one in Henley? David Colver (talk) 22:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Boundary changes. Tavistock (an historic seat for which John Pym and Lord John Russell had sat in previous centuries) was abolished in time for the Feb'74 election. In 1966 an ambitious young Hezza would have been glad to be selected for a safe seat anywhere, but by 1974 he wanted somewhere nearer London.
