h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My sole reference point for Micheal Foot is a collection of MAC Cartoons from 1981 - 1982 from, I think, () Daily Mail. I found it at a jumble sale when I was a lot younger and thought the pictures were funny.

Anyway, I hear comparissons being made to the Former Labour Leader in Opposition between he and Gordon Brown, and given that I progressed from a bump to a toddler during his reign I was wondering if there was anyone out there who can enlighten me as to his career?

I'll go and do some research of my own, of course, but just out of interest I thought I'd ask h2g2 too.

Clive.

I often dip into Tony Benn's diaries for researching politicians - you understand a lot more of what the politician was like as a person, rather than what they did.

Just looked him up: lots of 'Foot-notes' in there, the first mention is in 1951.

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Very classy I think.

Ah yes, I seem to recall that coat was the subject of a series of the cartoons....

I don't think it was so much what he did as the impression Foot gave which draws the Brown/Foot comparason.
I was fond of Michael Foot in a way as he came across as a dithery, ineffectual old grandfather, somewhat dressed as a scarecrow. Foot was very much old labour, or at least that was the impression I got.
I hate to be unkind to Foot but scraping the bottom of the barrel is the impresion I got of him as a Labour leader which is why the Brown/Foot comparrason is so good!

Michael Foot was the acceptable face of the Labour Left.

He wasn't the firebrand Benn, and he was favoured by the unions. However he also turned out to be rather ineffectual - unable to react to situations, and relying on dogma. Against that he remained true to his believes, which in an age of political expediency was admired - for example he was an early marcher for unilateral disarmament.

Michael Foot was not a politician for the 20th century, but was the only candidate acceptable to all wings of the party after Callaghan.

The Jim Hacker of the Labour Party