I just found out Michael Foot has died

A bit of a weird coincidence here. My last post was about a job interview today (it went pretty well, I think. Thanks.) in which I said that the last time I wore my suit was for my uncle's funeral in 2005. My uncle was a journalist, a socialist and an NUJ shop-steward (father of his chapel) for many, many years and had know Michael Foot since the 1950s. Michael Foot was at his funeral. So, last time I wore my suit was at a funeral that he attended, today, when I wore the suit again, he died.

The world is full of coincidence, but it isn't full of people as good as Michael Foot. I remember him speaking at rallies back in the 1970s and 80s, usually wearing his donkey jacket, speaking up a storm and then marching resolutely to Trafalgar Square.

A good man.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 14:40, 28 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Amen brother.
A real politician has passed. I doubt many will remember today's "Politician-Lite" breed.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 14:42, Reply)

RIP fella
They'll all be gone soon.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 14:57, Reply)

This is sad news
I'm afraid we all ripped the piss out of him under Thatcher, but I've grown up since then.

A man with principals always suffers under the ignorant masses.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:00, Reply)

Men with principles do too

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 16:04, Reply)

Great bloke but silly name.

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:02, Reply)

Maybe it was a descriptive surname?
He did walk funny.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:04, Reply)

Michael is a perfectly normal name
You monikerist
(Bret Mong Keys Eggs has wet his weapon, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:05, Reply)

I hate the Queen.

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:18, Reply)

Pfffft

(Bret Mong Keys Eggs has wet his weapon, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:30, Reply)

Your suit...
It's not hooded and black is it? Do you happen to carry a scythe when you wear it?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:04, Reply)

I hadn't realised he was still alive.
Now, for Thatcher. Today would be a good day for her to peg it on account of it being 25 years to the day since the miner's strike ended. nine more hours of the day left - here's hoping...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:05, Reply)

*sticks pins in doll*

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:14, Reply)

She would have to stand in the queue behind Foot at the Pearly Gates
This gives me a glow of satisfaction

*glows*
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:17, Reply)

keep hoping
she'll be around after the nuclear holocaust, surviving on the cockroaches
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:23, Reply)

I'm still hoping to corner the ex-lax concession at Grantham cemetary.
After all, there will be coachloads wanting to shit on her grave.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 16:21, Reply)

didn't agree with his politics
but respected the man himself
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:07, Reply)

Exactly.
How many modern politicians could we say that about? I still think Norman Tebbitt should have succeeded Thatcher. You knew where you were with Tebbitt.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:12, Reply)

Nazi Germany?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:13, Reply)

Bent over a table with cheeks spread?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:14, Reply)

He would have been more effective than the Grey Man.
We could have continued the hate for a lot longer. I hate feeling nothing about a politician.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:15, Reply)

the last few years have given me plenty of hate for politicians
Blair, Brown, Mandelson, Portillo, Harman, Balls, Blunkett, Straw. It's a roster of the mentally handicapped
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:19, Reply)

I've found them to be, in the main, a bunch of easily forgotten non-entities.
With occasional outstanding nobheads. Not many though.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:23, Reply)

think you're right
the last few years have been ones of politicians who are indistinguishably slimy
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:28, Reply)

Well Gordon Brown for one.
Rock solid man and a decent socialist.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 16:22, Reply)

The only decent socialist
is a National Socialist, I've always said.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 17:05, Reply)

A good man indeed.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 16:23, Reply)

I remember him from the 80s
and he looked like he smelled of wee, even then.

'wearing his donkey jacket, speaking up a storm and then marching resolutely to Trafalgar Square'.....where he proceeded to achieve precisely sod all, apart from having a cheeky wee in his trousers.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Question: What do David Bowie and Michael Foot have in common?
Answer...
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 9:46, Reply)