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The late, great Michael Foot. 13:51 - Oct 3 with 2089 viewsLohengrin

If you have a half hour to spare listen to this. The first four minutes or so is just the preamble before he hits his stride, it’s a tour-de-majeste of public speaking.

Youngsters who are used to seeing Johnson and Corbyn’s halting, spluttering displays across the despatch box have no idea of how things used to be, how precipitous the decline.



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The late, great Michael Foot. on 14:02 - Oct 3 with 1382 viewsAce_Jack

will listen after work.
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The late, great Michael Foot. on 15:39 - Oct 3 with 1323 viewslonglostjack

Superb. What a contrast to what we have now.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 15:55 - Oct 3 with 1289 viewsbluey_the_blue

Foot was a great mind, great speaker.

Bonkers with policies, but...
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The late, great Michael Foot. on 16:35 - Oct 3 with 1277 viewsmonmouth

A good man that was vilified mercilessly by the rabid tory press, simply because of how he looked and because of their thatcherite wet dream.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:36 - Oct 4 with 1128 viewsBrynmill_Jack

The late, great Michael Foot. on 16:35 - Oct 3 by monmouth

A good man that was vilified mercilessly by the rabid tory press, simply because of how he looked and because of their thatcherite wet dream.


He was no centrist mind you, for all those wetting their pants. Far mor Corbyn like than John Smith for example.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:39 - Oct 4 with 1121 viewsfelixstowe_jack

Just another failed politician who delivered nothing. Mind you he would have been a great in the Welsh Assembly the home of people who could not get elected as MPs, MEPs, or local councillors.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:45 - Oct 4 with 1109 viewsladyjack

The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:39 - Oct 4 by felixstowe_jack

Just another failed politician who delivered nothing. Mind you he would have been a great in the Welsh Assembly the home of people who could not get elected as MPs, MEPs, or local councillors.


Hardly some were mp's but preferred to serve Wales directly, some were am's and mep's and some were councillors and am's, I prefer if they only did one job mind.
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The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:45 - Oct 4 with 1107 viewsladyjack

Gwynfor was greater and more impressive than Foot.
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The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:06 - Oct 4 with 1085 viewsLohengrin

The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:36 - Oct 4 by Brynmill_Jack

He was no centrist mind you, for all those wetting their pants. Far mor Corbyn like than John Smith for example.


No he was no centrist, Bryn. Nor was he anything remotely like Corbyn.

If you want to know the man the best place to take him is at his own word. He authored eighteen books and his journalism over seven decades was voluminous. He was the sort of principled, intellectual buccaneer not to be found in this century. The most fascinating man I’ve ever met.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:11 - Oct 4 with 1077 viewsLohengrin

The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:45 - Oct 4 by ladyjack

Gwynfor was greater and more impressive than Foot.


You’re basing that opinion on what?

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:13 - Oct 4 with 1072 viewsWarwickHunt

The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:11 - Oct 4 by Lohengrin

You’re basing that opinion on what?


Being a professional Welsh twàtbasket.

Just a guess like...
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The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:20 - Oct 4 with 1065 viewsLohengrin

The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:13 - Oct 4 by WarwickHunt

Being a professional Welsh twàtbasket.

Just a guess like...


He’s like a dog running around with a branch who hasn’t the first idea of the tree it belongs to.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:23 - Oct 4 with 1063 viewstheloneranger

The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:39 - Oct 4 by felixstowe_jack

Just another failed politician who delivered nothing. Mind you he would have been a great in the Welsh Assembly the home of people who could not get elected as MPs, MEPs, or local councillors.


"Mind you he would have been a great in the Welsh Assembly the home of people who could not get elected as MP's" ...

He was an MP for 40+ years

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:41 - Oct 4 with 1049 viewsWarwickHunt

The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:23 - Oct 4 by theloneranger

"Mind you he would have been a great in the Welsh Assembly the home of people who could not get elected as MP's" ...

He was an MP for 40+ years


"For his 90th birthday, Foot was registered with the Football League as an honorary player and given the shirt number 90. This made him the oldest registered professional player in the history of football".

Magnificent!
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The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:52 - Oct 4 with 1036 viewsLohengrin

The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:41 - Oct 4 by WarwickHunt

"For his 90th birthday, Foot was registered with the Football League as an honorary player and given the shirt number 90. This made him the oldest registered professional player in the history of football".

Magnificent!


Even his surging runs down the left wasn’t enough for them when they next faced us. We did the double 1-0 home and away.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:54 - Oct 4 with 1029 viewsJoe_bradshaw

Born too late. His oratory didn’t really suit the television age.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:01 - Oct 4 with 1019 viewsmonmouth

The late, great Michael Foot. on 08:36 - Oct 4 by Brynmill_Jack

He was no centrist mind you, for all those wetting their pants. Far mor Corbyn like than John Smith for example.


Bryn, he would shit Corbyns. This was a genuine man of principle, and an intellectual heavyweight, not some Wolfie Smith moron on an ego trip.
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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:07 - Oct 4 with 1009 viewsLohengrin

The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:54 - Oct 4 by Joe_bradshaw

Born too late. His oratory didn’t really suit the television age.


The greatest speakers tailor their presentation to the occasion. He could do that, he did that. You don’t get to be the youngest President of the Oxford Union without the ability to read an audience.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:10 - Oct 4 with 1003 viewsmonmouth

The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:07 - Oct 4 by Lohengrin

The greatest speakers tailor their presentation to the occasion. He could do that, he did that. You don’t get to be the youngest President of the Oxford Union without the ability to read an audience.


Yes. How he looked didn’t fit television Loh, not how he spoke. I campaigned for him, knowing it was a doomed cause, because of his integrity and passion. Some real heavyweights around in those days whether you agreed or disagreed with their politics. Today makes me want to weep.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:14 - Oct 4 with 996 viewsladyjack

The late, great Michael Foot. on 09:06 - Oct 4 by Lohengrin

No he was no centrist, Bryn. Nor was he anything remotely like Corbyn.

If you want to know the man the best place to take him is at his own word. He authored eighteen books and his journalism over seven decades was voluminous. He was the sort of principled, intellectual buccaneer not to be found in this century. The most fascinating man I’ve ever met.


Gwynfor went to the same university authored a similar amount of books but Gwynfor was a better orator than Foot plus of course Foot lost to Thatcher and Gwynfor beat her, hence the Gwynfor 1 Thatcher 0 painted in big letters on the embankment outside Parliament.
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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:31 - Oct 4 with 979 viewsLohengrin

The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:10 - Oct 4 by monmouth

Yes. How he looked didn’t fit television Loh, not how he spoke. I campaigned for him, knowing it was a doomed cause, because of his integrity and passion. Some real heavyweights around in those days whether you agreed or disagreed with their politics. Today makes me want to weep.


Well he was never in the running for the GQ Awards, was he?

His physical appearance, his gait especially, deteriorated rapidly after the car crash and he was always afflicted by eczema as a result of his chronic asthma. I always thought there was a really unnecessary, outright cruel undertone to the way he was portrayed in Spitting Image too, thinking back. He was a theorist and the only thing that mattered was what he had going on upstairs.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:34 - Oct 4 with 968 viewsLohengrin

The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:14 - Oct 4 by ladyjack

Gwynfor went to the same university authored a similar amount of books but Gwynfor was a better orator than Foot plus of course Foot lost to Thatcher and Gwynfor beat her, hence the Gwynfor 1 Thatcher 0 painted in big letters on the embankment outside Parliament.


Have you ever visited Planet Earth?

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:42 - Oct 4 with 951 viewstheloneranger

The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:31 - Oct 4 by Lohengrin

Well he was never in the running for the GQ Awards, was he?

His physical appearance, his gait especially, deteriorated rapidly after the car crash and he was always afflicted by eczema as a result of his chronic asthma. I always thought there was a really unnecessary, outright cruel undertone to the way he was portrayed in Spitting Image too, thinking back. He was a theorist and the only thing that mattered was what he had going on upstairs.


Worzel Gummidge??

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:43 - Oct 4 with 949 viewsLohengrin

The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:42 - Oct 4 by theloneranger

Worzel Gummidge??


That’s The Sun for you.

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The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:44 - Oct 4 with 947 viewsladyjack

The late, great Michael Foot. on 10:34 - Oct 4 by Lohengrin

Have you ever visited Planet Earth?


Gwynfor would have opponents on their feet applauding him after he makes a speech, Gwynfor was a lawyer, small business man, historian, author, political leader for decades, he was of course a highly intelligent intellectual man, Foot was premier league and so was Gwynfor but Gwynfor takes him overall as Gwynfor was better at public speaking and better for not just being a writer like Foot but in Gwynfor's case for being a historian of high repute.
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