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Michael Foot wearing a donkey jacket to the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph didn't do the Labour Party any favours too.
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seagullsovergrimsby
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Grenada 1983 ?
clapham_gull
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Buzzer
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Agreed. That was typical of Foot though. He really belonged to another era even in the late 70s, early 80s. He would have been more at home, electioneering alongside Bertrand Russell and the liberal nonconformists 60 or 70 years earlier. A man who never got to grips with post-industrial politics.
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We didn't invade Grenada, though. The Yanks did.
as much as i love you buzz me old china...........i HATE thatcher.
i actually DO wish her dead
and i have never wished that on anyone.
that was one evil bitch though
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It was former British colony who asked for our assistance. The Americans didn't want another Cuba on their doorstep. Not doing anything apart from grumbling in public was a way of saying thank you from Thatcher after the Americans tried the diplomatic approach with Argentina 18 months earlier.
simonsimon
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"Agreed. That was typical of Foot though. He really belonged to another era even in the late 70s, early 80s. He would have been more at home, electioneering alongside Bertrand Russell and the liberal nonconformists 60 or 70 years earlier. A man who never got to grips with post-industrial politics."
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Michael Foot was subsidised and finaced and then planted in the Labour Party by Lord Beaverbrook years before any of these events.
Unfortunately the egotistical idiot could never see the damage he was doing to the Labour Party and carried on doing Beaverbrooks biding long after his death.
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Michael Foot was subsidised and finaced and then planted in the Labour Party by Lord Beaverbrook years before any of these events.
Unfortunately the egotistical idiot could never see the damage he was doing to the Labour Party and carried on doing Beaverbrooks biding long after his death.
Buzzer
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Planted by Beaverbrook? That's a new one on me. Honestly - what's the story then as I understood that Foot joined the Labour Party at Oxford having been a classic Liberal like most others in his family.
Especially interested in Beaverbrook financing agent saboteurs in the Labour party.
simonsimon
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No one else would give Foot a job at the time.
Beaverbrook knew that financing this firebrand would pay off in the end.
Beaverbrook knew that financing this firebrand would pay off in the end.
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Getting all high and mighty about morals and ethics, but wishing death upon someone... It's Simple Simon.
simonsimon
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During the Second World War Foot helped establish the 1941 Committee.
In December 1941 the committee published a report that called for public control of the railways, mines and docks and a national wages policy. A further report in May 1942 argued for works councils and the publication of "post-war plans for the provision of full and free education, employment and a civilized standard of living for everyone." Soon afterwards Foot became editor of the Evening Standard.
Looking to expand his newspaper empire, the owner of the Daily Express, Lord Beaverbrook, purchased a controlling interest in the Evening Standard in 1926 and became sole owner of it in 1933. Although an influential newspaper, Beaverbook was unable to make the Evening Standard into a financial success.
During the Second World War Foot helped establish the 1941 Committee.
In December 1941 the committee published a report that called for public control of the railways, mines and docks and a national wages policy. A further report in May 1942 argued for works councils and the publication of "post-war plans for the provision of full and free education, employment and a civilized standard of living for everyone." Soon afterwards Foot became editor of the Evening Standard.
Looking to expand his newspaper empire, the owner of the Daily Express, Lord Beaverbrook, purchased a controlling interest in the Evening Standard in 1926 and became sole owner of it in 1933. Although an influential newspaper, Beaverbook was unable to make the Evening Standard into a financial success.
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NMH
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Green does suit you.
You cannot even dream the kind of stuff that is routine on my CV!
NMH
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MNH
You "Mr. Responsibility"
Not what I've heard!!
She lied - I wore a condom..... that silly tart lied I tell you
Pot noodles for everyone
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Green does suit you.
You cannot even dream the kind of stuff that is routine on my CV!
And it's just as well that the hi-res yellow jacket matches your eyes too, considering it comes with your job.
Why are you coming out with all this high flier nonsense? You're a poxy steward in a pisspot stadium and you earn a few quid above minimum wage. No amount of bluster is going to change the fact that I could fall on hard times and become something as socially unacceptable as a traffic warden and I'd still trump you jobwise. You're not even a chief steward, for Pete's sake.
It's not even as if an irascible old misanthrope like you could claim they do it for altruistic reasons. No-one would believe you.
