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James Brokenshire RIP

Addick Addict
Addick Addict Posts: 39,794
edited October 2021 in Not Sports Related
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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  • jacob_CAFC
    jacob_CAFC Posts: 2,063
    Met him at college when we went to parliament and he seemed like a nice enough guy. RIP
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    3 children, incredibly sad. 
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,625
    RIP
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Very sad, 53. Poor family
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    RIP.

    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. 
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    RIP
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,485
    No age at all.

    RIP
  • DICKIE PLUMB
    DICKIE PLUMB Posts: 202
    He was my MP. Very sad, Rest in Peace, James. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,855
    Very sad news, RIP. I hadn't realised that his constituency was Old Bexley and Sidcup, he died at Darent Valley
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    Seemed a very decent guy RIP
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  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    Gone too young, while I would not have agreed with his politics, and his tenure in Northern Ireland contrasts positively only to some of the other Secretaries of State since 2010, he always seemed like a decent enough sort.

    Thoughts with his widow and children.
  • Addick_and_Chips
    Addick_and_Chips Posts: 445
    RIP James. Thoughts are with your wife and children. 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,249
    Fuck cancer

    Rest in peace 
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Name looked familiar but didn’t know why until I opened the thread.
    I was at the small club attached to his office in station rd, sidcup on Wednesday.
    RIP
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    RIP
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,084
    He was my MP when I lived in Bexley, and he was considerably helpful when I approached him to support the application on behalf of the Supporters trust, sent in a very supportive letter, and suggested some people to approach who could help  further our cause. He realised the good work that CAFC had done in the community, and although I am not a Tory,  he always seemed very sincere and honest. He has a young family, who I met with him at a service for the 1914\18 serviceman to commemorate the 100 war that I had been working on for Bexley Council, and was one of those politicians that took an interest in local community matters, irrespective of political  views. Sad to hear of his death.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    RIP.
    Hope his family are able to cope with the loss of a husband and father at too young an age.
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    Very sad. So young. RIP James
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    RIP
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    R I P
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  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    RIP James. Got to know him and his wife through the kids school, very likeable man and a lovely family. So very sad. 
    Bastard disease 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,848
    RIP James
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,284
    Sad news and thoughts today for his family and friends. 
  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,826
    A lovely man.
    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
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,150
    Very sad aged only 53 RIP
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    RIP. That's a tragically young age to leave children.  
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,630
    I'm a staunch Tory & lived in Bexley for a number of years but moved away before he became the MP there so never got the vote for him. Seemed a very honest & likeable chap from what I've seen of him on tv and a year younger than me, so brings it home really. 

    RIP.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,339
    RIP
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,291
    I'm another one who didn't share his politics, but he always came across as a decent, thoughtful bloke when interviewed. Thoughts are with his wife and kids. RIP.
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,680
    Was my MP when I lived in Sidcup and filled the shoes of Ted Heath for the constituency. Heard his cancer had come back but had no idea it was terminal. RIP

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