James Brokenshire, MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup, has very sadly passed away. I am anything but a Conservative though got to know of him in a very minor way through another MP who is a family friend. He also tried to help me last season with a cricket matter affecting supporters being allowed to go to club and county age group games even though he was having treatment for cancer at that time.
Please let's not make this a political thread but one for those who wish to show their respects to a man who has passed away at the age of just 53, leaving a wife and three children behind
RIP James
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Horrible desease. It is sad when someone is taken before their time especially when children are involved.
I used to live in OB&S and I stood against Ted Heath in 1997. Brokenshire became the MP after I moved away from the area so I never met him personally.
RIP
Thoughts with his widow and children.
Rest in peace
I was at the small club attached to his office in station rd, sidcup on Wednesday.
RIP
Hope his family are able to cope with the loss of a husband and father at too young an age.
He was my MP, he knocked on my door a few years ago while canvassing at election time.
Despite my comments that I couldn't vote for him, we spent around 15 minutes talking the economic disparities in England.
He came across as being without ego.
I remember his 'minders' getting agitated.
A highly unlikely politician, if only the gasbag Boris was more like him.
So sad, a family man.
RIP James
RIP.