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Junior Chimp
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« on: April 25, 2020, 01:34:45 PM » |
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I've never met anyone who had a bad thing to say about Foot. From all accounts, and in all the interview footage I've seen, he appears to be a truly decent man. Principled, and without the arrogance that seems to plague contemporaries like Tony Benn (maybe that's just me. Never could listen to that guy for too long).
But after the Falklands, when Thatcher was at her strongest, it was the worst possible moment for Foot to be leader.
If Harold Wilson had stepped down after losing to Heath in 1970, and Foot had replaced him, I think he could have been far more successful, and almost certainly have formed a decent majority over Heath in 1974, as Wilson did. But for the 80s, he was too far outside the Overton window.
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