No more crowing

The death of Bob Crow is truly shocking and not just because he was only 52-years old.  He was one of the major political figures in this country and, like Michael Moore, revelled in the revulsion of his critics.  Union leaders aren't always that well-known, Len McCluskey of UNITE possibly vying fro the crown of most famous/notorious, but Bob Crow's mannerisms, bluster and determination made him a significant figure beyond the RMT union and its partial hegemony on the London Underground - a 'communist/socialist', had he lived in the USSR in the early 1920s, he no doubt would have had a city (re-)named after him.
The coincidence was that he was interviewed over a lunch, broadcast by PM yesterday.  When he mentioned about seeing the bankers in the Bank of England counting the money in his distinctive East End idiom, I idly thought 'I wonder what his obituary would say', expecting such a notice to be decades away in the future.  That contributes to broadside from leftfield of the announcement.
Crow harked back to an era when 'Emperor Jones' (Jack Jones) and his fellow trade union leaders wielded immense political power over the governments of the 1970s.  Apart from appearing on Question Time and constantly having to defend living in a council house when on £150,000 per annum, Crow's direct operations were largely confined to London.  His power in the Labour movement though could not be denied.