RIP: Michael Foot

[SueEllen]

The funniest comment from Alastair Campbell on NewsNight -
Nu Labour have a lot in common with Michael Foot.


Heseltine, Williams and Paxman where all into stunned silence.

[stek]

I liked Michael Foot, possibly the last true socialist in the Labour Party....

Never stood a chance when Thatcher was stirring up Jingoism and Argie-bashing.

GOTCHA!!!

[Alf W]

.. and 'Thatch' still lives.

There is no god.

[stek]

.. and 'Thatch' still lives.

There is no god.

Nicolas Parson's father delivered her I believe. There is no God twice....

[Flashman]

I hope one day to take a long steaming dump on Tony Blair’s grave. And symbolically do to him what he has done to this country.

However I feel genuinely sad to hear about Michael Foot. Politically wrong in so many ways but I always thought a decent, sincere, honest politician.

R.I.P

[Flashman]

Oh and Michael Foot on the Falklands

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/c...4-03T11:45:00Z

The rights and the circumstances of the people in the Falkland Islands must be uppermost in our minds. There is no question in the Falkland Islands of any colonial dependence or anything of the sort. It is a question of people who wish to be associated with this country and who have built their whole lives on the basis of association with this country. We have a moral duty, a political duty and every other kind of duty to ensure that that is sustained.

639 The people of the Falkland Islands have the absolute right to look to us at this moment of their desperate plight, just as they have looked to us over the past 150 years. They are faced with an act of naked, unqualified aggression, carried out in the most shameful and disreputable circumstances. Any guarantee from this invading force is utterly worthless—as worthless as any of the guarantees that are given by this same Argentine junta to its own people.

We can hardly forget that thousands of innocent people fighting for their political rights in Argentine are in prison and have been tortured and debased. We cannot forget that fact when our friends and fellow citizens in the Falkland Islands are suffering as they are at this moment.

[sasguru]

Whatever you thought of his economic beliefs there was no doubt he was a principled, old-fashioned gentleman.

RIP

[DodgyAgent]

.. and 'Thatch' still lives.

There is no god.

Let's see how our small minded mysogonist deals with this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ader-dies.html

[EternalOptimist]

Whatever you thought of his economic beliefs there was no doubt he was a principled, old-fashioned gentleman.

RIP

yep.

When he was fighting the last election, there was a joke slogan put about
Jon Pertwee for Prime Minister, Michael Foot for Worzel Gummidge, and I think he repeated it more than anyone else, a top fellow