Robin Cook is dead
Aug. 6th, 2005 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenfeetI only met Robin Cook once and I'm sure the obituary writers will tell you all about Cook the politician but I think the little incident I'm about to relate says something about a man who was genuine and not full of his own importance as so many politicians are.
It must have been in 1977 or 78 and Robin had been doing a lunchtime talk to the Labour Club at Durham, of which I was then the Chairman. It finished around 2pm as these things are wont to and in those days there was almost nowhere one could get anything resembling lunch in Durham at that hour so we had recourse to the general unappetising cafeteria in Dunelm House. There was next to nothing left to eat but there was a single, solitary pie which I was more than happy to concede to my guest but he absolutely insisted on sharing it with me. I just can't see the Right Honourable Member for Sedgefield doing that.
It must have been in 1977 or 78 and Robin had been doing a lunchtime talk to the Labour Club at Durham, of which I was then the Chairman. It finished around 2pm as these things are wont to and in those days there was almost nowhere one could get anything resembling lunch in Durham at that hour so we had recourse to the general unappetising cafeteria in Dunelm House. There was next to nothing left to eat but there was a single, solitary pie which I was more than happy to concede to my guest but he absolutely insisted on sharing it with me. I just can't see the Right Honourable Member for Sedgefield doing that.
