By gum it's sad.
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mistletoeMore people have gone.
First a man who many reviled, but others, such as me, praised for his integrity in the face of adversity and a lifelong belief in Socialism. I speak of Michael Foot MP and former leader of the Labour Party. Aged 96 he is probably most noted as the Party Leader who attended Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph wearing a donkey jacket in order to lay his wreath alongside Margaret Thatcher and the Queen. I remember him as a great orator who could apparently silence the House of Commons, a notoriously rowdy place, with his words.
Here is some info about him.
And some pictures
Plymouth in the post-War election where Labour defeated Churchill's Conservative Party.
At Durham Miners Gala in 1963.
I saw him at the last Gala he attended about 6 years ago. He may have been in his dotage by then and had a nurse with him, but he sang every word of The Red Flag that one of the bands played.
A photo taken by Denis Healy, his great political rival whom he defeated for the party leadership in 1980. Sadly, he led the Party to its greatest defeat in 1983 and resigned.
Also a sad loss is the first black football manager in this country, Keith Alexander.
Only 53, Keith watched his team, Macclesfield Town lose to Notts County least night, drove home and collapsed and died.
He was manager of Lincoln City when he suffered a brain aneurysm several years ago. Having taken them to four successive playoff finals, he was unable to continue and lost his job. However he went on to Peterborough and Bury before joining Macclesfield and keeping them up. It is a sad day for them and his family.
First a man who many reviled, but others, such as me, praised for his integrity in the face of adversity and a lifelong belief in Socialism. I speak of Michael Foot MP and former leader of the Labour Party. Aged 96 he is probably most noted as the Party Leader who attended Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph wearing a donkey jacket in order to lay his wreath alongside Margaret Thatcher and the Queen. I remember him as a great orator who could apparently silence the House of Commons, a notoriously rowdy place, with his words.
Here is some info about him.
And some pictures
Plymouth in the post-War election where Labour defeated Churchill's Conservative Party.
At Durham Miners Gala in 1963.
I saw him at the last Gala he attended about 6 years ago. He may have been in his dotage by then and had a nurse with him, but he sang every word of The Red Flag that one of the bands played.
A photo taken by Denis Healy, his great political rival whom he defeated for the party leadership in 1980. Sadly, he led the Party to its greatest defeat in 1983 and resigned.
Also a sad loss is the first black football manager in this country, Keith Alexander.
Only 53, Keith watched his team, Macclesfield Town lose to Notts County least night, drove home and collapsed and died.
He was manager of Lincoln City when he suffered a brain aneurysm several years ago. Having taken them to four successive playoff finals, he was unable to continue and lost his job. However he went on to Peterborough and Bury before joining Macclesfield and keeping them up. It is a sad day for them and his family.
