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Reply With QuoteWell remembered for turning up at the Cenotaph on Remembrance day in a Duffel coat, although some referred to it as a donkey jacket.
Not that what one wears, necessarily makes one a bad person, because it doesn't.
96 was a good age!
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BBC News - Former Labour leader Michael Foot has died
Labour leader from 1980 to 1983, when Thatcherism was in the ascendancy. Also employment secretary under Harold Wilson and leader of the commons during the 70's. Avid nuclear disarmament campaigner and part of Labour's golden generation of 1945.
Stepped down after labour's heaviest defeat in 1983, with election manifesto notorious for being 'the longest suicide note in history'.
Also holds the record for the oldest registered football player after having been assigned an honorary squad number (90, his then age) by Plymouth Argyle.
What then of his place in history?
"Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people." - Jimmy Reid
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Well remembered for turning up at the Cenotaph on Remembrance day in a Duffel coat, although some referred to it as a donkey jacket.
Not that what one wears, necessarily makes one a bad person, because it doesn't.
96 was a good age!
Jesus said in John 3:17, "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."
accidental genius!
Shame there aren't more like him around now though!
And I've never understood the fuss over the donkey jacket!
To quote a master:
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
"The object of universities is not to make skilful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings." John Stewart Mill
Accidental Poet
Apparently it was not a 'donkey jacket', and the Queen Mother liked it.Originally Posted by Opinionated
Michael Foot and the donkey jacket that wasn't - Telegraph
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
accidental genius!
Damn you Americans not allowing me to claim ownership for even one common yet brilliant man!!!!News flash Lincoln never lived in a log cabin http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/a...nanananana.gif.
"The object of universities is not to make skilful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings." John Stewart Mill
Accidental Poet
Yes he did, we have it on good authority that Lincoln was born in a log cabin that he built with his own hands. So there!!
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
Ops, "If" seems to be a fitting tribute. Have liked its sentiments from the first time I encountered it. The quoted line below was always my only problem with it. Seems to me, our 'loving friends', are the only ones who can hurt us, certainly not a foe, as that is where one would expect a 'hurt' to come from.
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
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