Michael Foot

Former Labour leader Michael Foot has died - From the BBC.

I was lucky enough to see Michael Foot speak at the Nottingham Albert Hall in the run up to the '83 election, and even as a young teenage lad, I knew I was in the prescence of a genius orator.

Unfortunately, the '83 election was one Labour had absolutely no chance of winning on a wave of early eighties selfish excess and post Falklands patriotic Conservatism.

But even then, he wasn't going to waver, a socialist in opposition rather than sell out his principals to become electable.

Today is a sad day indeed.