R.I.P. Michael Foot

He had been ill for some time with fading health and had been receiving 24-hour care.
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So I guess he had one foot in the grave for a while...


(I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.)
 
I was quite startled to hear this news; to be honest I thought he'd died years ago.
 
richardm said:
I was quite startled to hear this news; to be honest I thought he'd died years ago.
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I was just a couple of nights ago watching a DVD of The World At War, and saw him speaking during WWII. "This is nearly 70 years ago! How old is Michael Foot?" I thought. And now I know.
 
richardm said:
I was quite startled to hear this news; to be honest I thought he'd died years ago.
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No, the longest suicide note in history wasn't about his demise so much as his party.

R.I.P Foot, a man who presided over an ideologically clear, if not wacky Labour Party.
 
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R.I.P to one of the craziest, most passionate leaders any Political party ever had. Saviour of the Labour party despite the heavy defeat under his leadership.
 
The last leader of the Labour party who had true integrity and humanity; the last link with the giants of the past, he's the one leader I might have voted for but was too young at the time. As for the 1983 manifesto, I don't think we're much better for having 30 years of Thatcherite policies, the last couple of years have ended the New Labour experiment in ignominy.

A summary of tributes here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8547195.stm
 
If anybody might have persuaded me to vote Labour, in these mauve-to-turquoise days, it could have been him.

Rolfe.
 
In the 80s when I happened to be walking through a Central London park to get somewhere else I came across a rally gathering, which IIRC was part of the "People's March for jobs" type campaigns during the very high unemployment at the time. Along with some Trade Union leaders, Micheal Foot happened to be one of the speakers. I always remember how very impressive he was when he spoke, I found myself being engrossed and absorbed in his oratory.
He was quite an relatively old man then when he became labour leader and it was clear to me then why he had so thrived in the days before constant TV coverage but somehow was of another age and what worked so well in the town halls, the public squares etc just didn't come across on the small screen.

Regardless of how his politics might be viewed then or in retrospect he was proabably the most impressive public speaker I have known.
 
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