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Originally Posted by Independent UKIP
Mrs. Dunwoody was indeed a great loss to parliament and the nation. I'm sure the liblabcon candidates will all be nobodies compared to her. I hope and trust if UKIP has a candidate he/she will be a person of substance worthy of following her as an MP.
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There will never be another Gwyneth Dunwoody MP.
Parliament and British politics will not be the same without her.
She was an MP for longer than most had been following politics (I believe that she was the last of those who entered the Commons for the first time in 1966).
One of the best compliments anyone could ever pay her was a reporter on Sky Television News who said upon hearing that she had passed on: "She was regarded by Blair and some of those around him as a troublemaker on certain issues."
When that lot call a politician a "troublemaker" you know the person they are criticising is in the right.
Happy days for Gwyneth in her Crewe-Nantwich constituency (photographs of hardworking eurosceptic Gwyneth attending functions in the Cheshire seat she loyally represented for many years):
Gwyneth Dunwoody
Tributes to The Late and much-missed Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody the longest-serving lady in the House of Commons – the woman many regarded as Labour’s version of Conservative Ann Widdecombe (another straight-talking and hardworking MP):
Tribute to Gwyneth Dunwoody, Memorial | Lasting tribute