Reply to: RIP: Michael Foot

[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

[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

[sasguru]

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

RIP

[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.

[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

[stek]

.. and 'Thatch' still lives.

There is no god.

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

[Alf W]

.. and 'Thatch' still lives.

There is no god.

[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!!!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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).

[Moscow Mule]

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

[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...