tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278366793340877738.post147055107898225866..comments2023-11-02T10:43:15.185+00:00Comments on DENVERSTROPE: Slow NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278366793340877738.post-8060417867318113202010-03-04T01:27:38.506+00:002010-03-04T01:27:38.506+00:00We seem to agree, Tony. But I'm still adament:...We seem to agree, Tony. But I'm still adament: unless I see some sign of life here, then I'm leaving.<br /><br />Basically, I'm a really nice guy (so I've been told), but I've really had quite enough.<br /><br />Foot is not the last Straw, Straw is.Jon Lishmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272058035800593800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278366793340877738.post-55650551382692789472010-03-04T00:55:42.994+00:002010-03-04T00:55:42.994+00:00All this lionising of Foot seems silly to me. Fair...All this lionising of Foot seems silly to me. Fair enough, he was a nice man. But there's queues of people - Tories even! - lining up to pay tribute to him as though he was some sort of elder statesman who'd achieved something Churchillian. The fact is that he was an absolute failure as a politician, particularly as a Labour leader: a far left loon, a figure of ridicule. <br /><br />A likeable person is not always right. And, while I never perceived Foot as likeable (when he was in the public eye I could only ever view him as a significant danger to the country and thus was unable to like him), I'm prepared to believe he was a decent chap in private, yet it strikes me as complete hypocrisy some of the people who are standing up in public and singing his praises when in private I'm pretty sure they think much as I do.<br /><br />Yes I'll honour his memory in the same way as I'd honour the memory of anyone who passes away (as the old saying goes, any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind), but I'm not about to canonise him, and I'm unlikely to like him all of a sudden.Cogito Dexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474929728659342255noreply@blogger.com