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« on: March 03, 2010, 07:46:07 AM »
He was 96.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8547228.stm

R.I.P
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« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2010, 08:19:52 AM »
Good innings, that.

Lousy Leader, but a (very) good man. Also quite important as a writer, lest we forget. Guilty Men and the biography of Nye.
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« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2010, 11:21:05 AM »
A great man with principle and integrity.

RIP Michael Foot.
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« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2010, 12:18:34 PM »
RIP to a great man.
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« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2010, 01:01:26 PM »

While he's remembered for the 1983 landslide defeat, it wasn't really his fault.

Rest in Peace.
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« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2010, 01:08:13 PM »
Whoever put together one of the articles on the BBC site is sadly ignorant of political history:

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Evidently there was no election in 1931...
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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2010, 04:16:56 PM »
Rest in peace.
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« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2010, 05:51:36 PM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7360774/Michael-Foot-obituary-video-former-Labour-leader-remembered.html

You can see me in the background right near the end.
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« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2010, 07:20:48 PM »
May he RIP.
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« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2010, 02:22:59 AM »
He was a leg end.
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« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2010, 02:24:35 AM »

Is that a pun or a typo?
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« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2010, 02:26:32 AM »
It wasn't a typo, I'm not sure about pun or not.  I know it was stolen and not a dead0riginal.
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« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2010, 04:32:20 AM »
Rest in Peace

He got his revenge for 1983 in 1997.
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« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2010, 05:56:32 AM »
Didn't know him, but RIP.
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« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2010, 04:17:17 PM »

The most socialist person ever to lead Labour.
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« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2010, 04:23:15 PM »

For some reason when I first heard this, the first thing that popped into my head was Guilty Men, and I completely forgot about 1983.
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« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2010, 04:24:46 PM »
Quote from: Beet on March 04, 2010, 04:23:15 PM

For some reason when I first heard this, the first thing that popped into my head was Guilty Men, and I completely forgot about 1983.

Well, yes, he helped with that too. Jesus, he was around for ages. He was 70 when he fought that election.
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« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2010, 06:00:36 PM »

Oh, well... FF then.
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« Reply #18 on: March 04, 2010, 06:02:01 PM »

...to the point of being completely anti-choice. He supported getting rid of private healthcare and education and nationaising god knows how much... thank God, Thatcher beat him. Nevertheless, he was a good parliamentarian and he had principles at least, unlike the current useless lot.
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« Reply #19 on: March 04, 2010, 06:10:30 PM »

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« Reply #20 on: March 04, 2010, 06:14:42 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: March 04, 2010, 06:47:58 PM »
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« Reply #22 on: March 04, 2010, 06:51:59 PM »
Quote from: Beet on March 04, 2010, 04:23:15 PM
For some reason when I first heard this, the first thing that popped into my head was Guilty Men

Did you? That's quite interesting, actually.
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« Reply #23 on: March 04, 2010, 07:00:59 PM »

I'd have to disagree about that. Certainly he was one of the most left wing (no matter how the term is defined), but a lot about his politics (and approach to it) came from the Liberalism of his family. Which is one reason why he was such a poor Leader; he lacked a proper understanding of the way the Party worked (and what its voters wanted) and was never able to find a way to overcome that.
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« Reply #24 on: March 04, 2010, 07:03:15 PM »

He was (as far as is known) the last person left who fought a Parliamentary election in Britain during the interwar period (Monmouth, 1935). There's now just a single survivor of the '45 Parliament left (John Freeman).

Foot's death has made me realise one thing though; later this year it will be fifty years since Nye Bevan died.
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