Friday 5 March 2010

Our Tribute To Michael Foot

Michael Foot, a romantic figure of the Labour left, has gone and left the rump of Labour to the hollow men. Who on the left or any major party in Britain today would dare or care to say the following: “We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer, ‘To hell with them.’ The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.”
Another flower gone. RIP.
From Tony, Barbara and Johnny.

2 comments:

  1. 'In politics you should never neglect the possibility that you might have to fall back on the truth'.

    Michael Foot said that. Anyone think it will ever occur to Gordo? Thought not.

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  2. A Trade Unionist10 March 2010 at 06:00

    Proudly remembered. RIP, Michael.

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