Yet again a great politician and orator passes on in much the same way that Enoch Powell was of the same ilk, albeit of a different hue we have been lucky to bear witness to these men of conviction.
You don't have to share their political views but they made you want to listen, I for one can't remember the last politician of recent times I listened to particularly Blurr. As for Thatcher don't wish to remember anything really.
The late John Smith would be the exception I guess he seemed to have kept in touch with real people.