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lionheart

Mar 3rd 2010 2:53 pm

Michael Foot RIP

The demise of a fine socialist...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100303/...i-45dbed5.html

Ray	Mar 3rd 2010 4:31 pm

Re: Michael Foot RIP

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Originally Posted by lionheart (Post 8390568)

The demise of a fine socialist...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100303/...i-45dbed5.html

Scruffy git ...

littlejimmy

Mar 3rd 2010 6:35 pm

Re: Michael Foot RIP

Had a million times more integrity than the current bunch of self-serving crooks.

Inselaffen

Mar 4th 2010 1:34 am

Re: Michael Foot RIP

no such thing as a fine socialist

co durham boy

Mar 4th 2010 6:43 am

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Originally Posted by littlejimmy (Post 8391178)

Had a million times more integrity than the current bunch of self-serving crooks.

Correct and also a man that came with a few decent morals and stuck to them through thick and thin.

The best thing about him was his penchant for wearing National Coal Board DONKEY JACKETS...!

....A proper bloke.....!

Meow	Mar 4th 2010 9:42 am

Re: Michael Foot RIP

I miss the old style politicians who actually believed in something and could speak in something other than central office sound bites.

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lionheart

Mar 4th 2010 9:58 am

Re: Michael Foot RIP

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Originally Posted by Inselaffen (Post 8392084)

no such thing as a fine socialist

How immature from somebody so intelligent.:(

The Dean

Mar 5th 2010 4:34 am

Re: Michael Foot RIP

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Originally Posted by lionheart (Post 8392914)

How immature from somebody so intelligent.:(

Socialism died about 20 years before Foot. Simple really.

Spugsy

Mar 5th 2010 7:49 pm

Re: Michael Foot RIP

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Originally Posted by co durham boy (Post 8392579)

my mam would never let me get a donkey jacket back then, I always wanted one.

And a crombie.

B Bear

Mar 6th 2010 6:45 am

Re: Michael Foot RIP

A useless leader who took labour to the worst defeat since 1918 and all the time in the pay of Moscow - apart from that, yeah great:rofl:

coffindodger

Mar 6th 2010 10:57 am

Re: Michael Foot RIP

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Originally Posted by B Bear (Post 8398529)

A useless leader who took labour to the worst defeat since 1918 and all the time in the pay of Moscow - apart from that, yeah great:rofl:

So nearly as good as Tony (Liar) Blair. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Meow	Mar 6th 2010 12:45 pm

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Originally Posted by B Bear (Post 8398529)

A useless leader who took labour to the worst defeat since 1918 and all the time in the pay of Moscow - apart from that, yeah great:rofl:

In the pay of Moscow? Now that is a daft thing to say. The Sunday Times ran a story suggesting that which he denied, then sued them and won.

He was a passionate supporter of CND & a socialist in the true sense. Neither of these are linked to the Soviet Union. Anyone who suggests that the USSR was communist in the real sense clearly has no idea about what these terms mean. He should never have stood for leader of the Labour Party, but to judge his whole political life on that, shows no knowledge of anything else he did. I was never a big supporter, and indeed am too young to have been when he was active, but the man made an impact and stood by what he believed in.

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lionheart

Mar 6th 2010 1:01 pm

Re: Michael Foot RIP

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Originally Posted by Spugsy (Post 8397269)

my mam would never let me get a donkey jacket back then, I always wanted one.

And a crombie.

I preferred a trench coat, mate.

Madam Medusa

Mar 6th 2010 1:21 pm

Re: Michael Foot RIP

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Originally Posted by Spugsy (Post 8397269)

my mam would never let me get a donkey jacket back then, I always wanted one.

And a crombie.

ohhh...i love guys in crombies...

MM, xx

Meow	Mar 7th 2010 8:55 am

Re: Michael Foot RIP

It was Michael Foot who first called Norman Tebbit a 'semi-trained polecat' so for that alone should be applauded.

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