Michael Foot: A 'genuine British radical'

[@Konform2zoidberg]

96 he was. they were worried in the eighties that he would die in office. He outlived most of them. And he did it with class.

[@MarkHarrison733]

Foot was a Soviet agent.

[@christopheroshea9799]

Foot and mouth He stood strong on both feet His mouth was a trumpet of intellect He was a great humanitarian I like him but never believed he suited politics He was the philosophy

[@boogiegroover1]

I met this great man & felt his presence as I shook his hand, he spoke without notes, his views on Nuke disarmament stay with me & we will rue the day that he a and people like him were not and are not listened to and acted on

[@thomasatkinson7319]

A real politician, you can, like I do, disagree with everything that comes out of his mouth, but be in total awe of how he put it. Great man.

[@benstevinson764]

Michael Foot was a Gentleman a Man of Principle! and Dignity! R. I. P 🌹

[@paradiso123]

Foot's legacy lives on, in you Jeremy Corbyn!

[@philipcamp4749]

The labour party is in terrible shape.

[@harry793]

Sure it did and how did that workout

[@owentill]

Jeremy Corbyn is a sad parody of Foot. It’s most visible in their different visions of national security and foreign policy. Michael Foot might’ve been anti nuclear but he was no dogmatist, he supported Britain’s position in WW2, the Falklands. Corbyn has had the good fortune of being known for his being on the right side of history for things like Iraq but he also has had some highly unsavoury moments such as dining with Bosnian genocide deniers over his dogmatic opposition to even the most moral and successful of interventions.

[@joshtate5328]

David Cameron's remarks are disingenuous: I doubt he has ever read anything written by Michael Foot. People like Michael Foot and Enoch Powell were far too intelligent to be allowed to hold high office.

[@MattanzaMafiaFedora]

You actually mention Foot in the same sentence as that racist bellend, when talking about intelligence...

[@ian_b]

@@MattanzaMafiaFedora 2:55 "He used his Parliamentary friendship with Enoch Powell..."

[@MattanzaMafiaFedora]

@@ian_b Not what I said, man... I'm talking about how you estimate intelligence.

[@MattanzaMafiaFedora]

@Arthur Morgan, Formerly 4th Chairman I love how obtuse you are, man. You are living proof that ignorance is bliss.

[@MattanzaMafiaFedora]

@Arthur Morgan, Formerly 4th Chairman I know your type all too well. You dress up all bigotry in very concerned sounding language, and yet your statements betray your true intentions by failing to mention how migrant workers actually contribute more in tax to this country than the average UK citizen. Find me evidence to back-up what you're saying, and stop pretending like you know the first thing about Socialism. You don't even try to give us the most basic criteria of what that ideology is about, and as such, cannot claim to know what it is I'd say about immigration one way or the other. As for open borders - and the inevitable conclusion that your type draws for the purpose of blaming the EU - we do actually have a system in place for this thing under EU regulations to prevent the wrong people coming over. You know what the issue is? It's the fact that we've never had a government that actually puts that policy into practice. Your beef is with Westminster, boy, not Brussels.

[@phillipgreer4875]

I thought Foot was totally wrong in his views, except on the EU, but he was a decent honourable man.

[@petergreen2552]

He was opposed to Stalinist style rule as well as UK membership of the Common Market. A true patriot. We'll never see his like again. How dumbed down modern Britain is when you ask them what comes to mind when you mention Michael Foot and most will say donkey jacket. He never owned one or wore one.

[@eduzz4655]

@@petergreen2552 though he wasn't also a dirty globalist trotskyist.

[@petergreen2552]

@@eduzz4655 ?????? Globalism wasn't the thing in his day and as for Trotskyist,he detested the whole premise of Stalinist Eastern Europe as did Tony Benn. Oh to have politicians of their intellect, intelligence and class today.

[@tubularbill]

I did not agree with Foot politically but he seemed basically like a decent and honest man.

[@memezoffuckery3207]

That commie was a paid KGB agent lmao: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6HVoaKGmJeaZs0m58s

[@nthglasScotland]

I was a teenager when Mr Michael Foot was leader of the labour party & I do say, much missed. I go to type "Sir Michael", then have the stop myself. Mr Cameron says what I feel about this time in OUR politics. Parliamentarians had either been through the second world war, or were children not long after it. I am a listener of long speeches rather than the: pardon the language, "rent a gob" from a lot in the House of Commoners at present.

[@vashna3799]

One of the most decent men in British politics, principled and idealistic. Torn apart by the Tory press for not dressing appropriately. Even Cameron praised him.

[@ramseypietronasser2]

Favourite person

[@lordhighexecutioner]

They were forced to nationalise the banks during the crisis - "The longest suicide note" is being vindicated.

[@WELLBRAN]

An honest down to earth political thinker whre did they all go? Not like these evasive lot we have now...in ALL parties

[@BVargas78]

A good man, Britains social problems we have today took root in a big way after his tenure.

[@tan21121]

the was a show on about him the other night on bbc1, it was called one foot in the grave.

[@Indul1]

That was a wonderful contribution by Dennis Skinner at the end of of it............

[@niceuneasy]

Foot a legend!! Cameron, brown, no-bodies 😎

[@barbarapineda5730]

Michael foots, hes a intellig... and a speaker very well. And hes, were.a socialis... and a radicals, too.hes knews.somesthings.and hes try too.get indivi. . Too waked up.and realized is times.too gives freedoms, a chances.

[@danielmurray1490]

Some great labout politicians in that period foot Benn shore castle any of those 4 would of been a great prime minister

[@garyw930]

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[@animatorswearbras]

I'd hold your coat. ;)

[@stevehillier7018]

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[@mandykhoo2473]

Economic illiterate and a great romantic idealist....rip

[@donbarzinitut]

Mandy Khoo Not so he would have saved Britain from thatcher’s misery.