Wednesday, 15 May 2024

RADICAL HERO (1) - MICHAEL FOOT COLOURISED

Those readers of a certain age may remember Michael Foot as Leader of the Opposition (1980 - 1983) and fierce critic of Margaret Thatcher. At the 1983 General Election, sponsoring a party manifesto memorably described as "the longest suicide note in history" (courtesy Gerald Kaufman, a Labour Front Bencher), Foot lost in a landslide, experiencing the worst result for the Labour Party since 1935:

Michael Foot and Margaret Thatcher at the Cenotaph, November 1981


Having had an extremely lengthy political career, Michael Foot would have well remembered the 1935 result, for it was then that he fought his very first Parliamentary election, in the constituency of Monmouth, right next door to Herefordshire.

A (very) young Michael Foot, Labour Party Candidate, 1935

Michael Foot, 1935, colourised.

For more on Michael Foot's 1935 election, and his subsequent involvement in Herefordshire's VBCW, see the Bishop's Broadcasting blog HERE. On any basis, a "radical hero" for the "Broad Left" !

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