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Southwark Mariner
August 18, 2021, 4:58pm
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-58257189

I remember receiving a signed letter from him on my 18th birthday suggesting I vote Labour.

Here's the interview he held with Brian Clough and Don Revie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiIdbDBmZc
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RIP Austin


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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That interview is legendary…


'the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy'...well done Mozza
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RIP Austin


[img]https://images.app.goo.gl/bymuz36koLHofSn79[/img]
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Rip Austin
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Very big Character and happy to go is own way against the party line, spoken highly of by people on all sides of the political spectrum.
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RIP Austin

I can remember contacting Austin (around 18 years ago) about certain issues I had concerns with and within a few days I had a very decent reply from him. I didn’t agree with everything he’d said but he was kind and understood my concerns.


Grimsby and proud!
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Rip. Whatever your political persuasion you could only admire his passion for what he did and the local area.

At one point he was on Look North that much I assumed he was a presenter!
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Quoted from Posh Harry
Rip. Whatever your political persuasion you could only admire his passion for what he did and the local area.

At one point he was on Look North that much I assumed he was a presenter!


Not far off. He was a journo who appeared on Calendar for 8 years.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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August 18, 2021, 10:17pm
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Saw him at Wembley following Town plenty of times. I liked him. Calendar legend!
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Quoted from 140381
Saw him at Wembley following Town plenty of times. I liked him. Calendar legend!



He was good on those panel games too. Very witty.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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Quoted from Southwark Mariner
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-58257189

I remember receiving a signed letter from him on my 18th birthday suggesting I vote Labour.

Here's the interview he held with Brian Clough and Don Revie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiIdbDBmZc


Really nice bloke and clearly someone who truly cared.



"Crombie you would have got to that if you weren't such a fat ba%$@rd" - George Kerr, inspiration from the dug out 70s style  
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my ex wife was a single mum on benefits , had real problems with the DHS, we went to see Austin.It was sorted within a week

Top man - RIP Austin
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RIP Austin. Condolences to the family.
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Really nice bloke and clearly someone who truly cared.



Has to be one of the greatest interviews in the football world. I have watched that so many times over the years. Unbelievable emotion in that studio.

R.I.P Austin


Codhead, socialist, recovered addict.
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What sort of person red crosses condolences and R.I.P sentiments, the mind boggles.
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What sort of person red crosses condolences and R.I.P sentiments, the mind boggles.
...One could type the obvious - when did...etc

Any road up, RIP to a really solid Labour MP can't say that about too many these days.

Great TV that interview, forgot that Clough signed Duncan McKenzie, a ridiculously talented player. How did Town miss out on even getting a short spell from him from school before he went on to bigger things? Remember the day of the Jim Dobbin win at Keegan's Newcastle he was presenting 606 and creaming himself over Town spoiling their chance of the record for consecutive wins.
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What sort of person red crosses condolences and R.I.P sentiments, the mind boggles.


GrimRob will have the data. Not sure, even with freedom of speech, I'd want someone who bothers to red cross posts wishing condolences, on my forum..
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...One could type the obvious - when did...etc

Any road up, RIP to a really solid Labour MP can't say that about too many these days.

Great TV that interview, forgot that Clough signed Duncan McKenzie, a ridiculously talented player. How did Town miss out on even getting a short spell from him from school before he went on to bigger things? Remember the day of the Jim Dobbin win at Keegan's Newcastle he was presenting 606 and creaming himself over Town spoiling their chance of the record for consecutive wins.



I remember McKenzie saying that the Town scouts thought he was too small.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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RIP Austin.

Very good, old school Labour man. Not many remaining now, more's the pity.
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What sort of person red crosses condolences and R.I.P sentiments, the mind boggles.


I think he anonymity of red and green crosses should be removed so that, like with Facebook ‘likes’ you can click and see who has ticked. If you feel strongly enough about something to red or green tick it, you should be prepared to be identified for doing so.
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Loved this comment from a reader BTL of The Times's obit on Austin Mitchell...

One of the joys of Labour Party conference back in the day was encountering Austin on the seafront at Brighton  or Blackpool, wearing an ill-fitting, off-the-peg  polyester suit, trousers hitched up by garish red braces, hair more tousled than ever by the sea breeze and eating fish and chips out of a paper bag.
He'd offer you a chip and cheerfully tell you that Foot/Kinnock/Smith/Blair didn't know what they were doing.  
I remember the "controversial" tie well. He wore it until the stains from his fish and chips  had restored the (topless)  young lady's  modesty. I always called him 'Jane' (as in Austen) and he invariably laughed uproariouly at the joke.
RIP, comrade. I doubt you would be allowed anywhere near a TV studio in this day and age and Starmer would bounce you out of the party for your heretical views in a flash.
But you were one of a kind and politics needs more like you.
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Rip Austin
Certainly a big character whose bright quirky personality shone through .. but not a dig at him just a question what did he achieve in long stint for MP for great Grimsby ? In his days I wasn’t interested in politics to much so would be interested to know
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Quoted from paramariner
What sort of person red crosses condolences and R.I.P sentiments, the mind boggles.


Easy. The sort of person who is trying to elicit a response by using red crosses. Makes them feel good to annoy. Ignore.


“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty."
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