RIP: Michael Foot

[Clippy]

Linky.

[Menelaus]

Linky.

Despite having long considered him a Trot of the worst order, RIP.

[minestrone]

I googled him last week thinking "he must be dead by now but can't remember when it happened"

[moorfield]

96 though... good innings.

[lje]

I googled him last week thinking "he must be dead by now but can't remember when it happened"

So is it your fault? You reminded the powers that be that they'd forgotten about him?

Mind you - I thought he was dead already so I probably didn't help...

[Moscow Mule]

http://jamescleverly.blogspot.com/20...hael-foot.html

[Menelaus]

http://jamescleverly.blogspot.com/20...hael-foot.html

Highly respectful of a Tory to be commemorating Mr Foot. Well done.

(note: no sarcasm intended).

[Doggy Styles]

Didn't he only have one eye as well? Condolences and all that, but it's a bit of a coincidence that the worst two leaders in Labour's existence...

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Foot was enough of a genuine conviction politician to have voted with Enoch Powell where he agreed with him. He was a genuine intellectual who valued a proper rigourous intellectual exploration of issues to the triumph of style over content and US-style soundbite campaigning.

He never stood a chance against Thatcher with her populist appeal.

[OwlHoot]

... Foot was enough of a genuine conviction politician to have voted with Enoch Powell where he agreed with him. He was a genuine intellectual who valued a proper rigourous intellectual exploration of issues to the triumph of style over content and US-style soundbite campaigning.

His battles had been won decades earlier, in the 30s. He was like an old buffer fighting the last war, and huffing and puffing about the need for more cavalry in an age of tanks and jets.