Leader of the opposition | Michael Foot | Labour Party | 1980s | Militant Tendency | TV Eye | 1982

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  • 'TV Eye's Llew Gardner speaks to Leader of the Opposition - Labour party leader Michael Foot MP.
    INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE MILITANT TENDENCY AND THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO WINGS OF THE PARTY; ABOUT THE PARTY'S STANDING IN THE COUNTRY; AND ABOUT HIS STYLE OF LEADERSHIP.
    First shown: 24/06/1982
    To license a clip from this interview please e mail: archive@fremantle.com
    Quote: VT27058

КОМЕНТАРІ • 28

  • @Spartan-jx8ux
    @Spartan-jx8ux Рік тому +21

    I love these videos. It helps us to understand the present with an eye on the past.

  • @datasilouk1995
    @datasilouk1995 Рік тому +12

    It's just nice to hear both sides of the discussion without thumb pointing, shouting , soundbites or point scoring by too many interruptions. An interview. Sadly lost over the years.

  • @patrickpayne8330
    @patrickpayne8330 Рік тому +3

    Amazing..!!!!!!! Michael Foot's attitude on the rail and nhs dispute....hold water NOW....and then in the early 80's.....

  • @stuartwilliams-fw4vo
    @stuartwilliams-fw4vo 9 місяців тому +3

    The brilliant Footie!

  • @WintersWar
    @WintersWar Рік тому +1

    I love listening to Gardner and Foot. Top quality discussion

  • @Beardodoomus
    @Beardodoomus Рік тому +6

    The more things change the more they stay the same. It's inevitable we're heading towards a Labour government for 2025. Let's see how it goes. We can only ever truly understand impacts of electoral decisions in the decades after they're made. We're still paying for decisions made by both the Tories of the 80s and 2000s and Labour of the 70s and 90s.

  • @eddiejones.redvees
    @eddiejones.redvees Рік тому +3

    Over the years I have come to the decision that us people that work to keep are family’s feed and put a roof over our heads pay to keep those at the top and bottom living a good life while people who fort to keep their country like my father who fort in Burma at to struggle to keep going he paid taxes until he passed away at 93 I pay taxes because I worked hard in my 40y has a telephone engineer so i would have a enough to pay my way in my now retired years

  • @niceuneasy
    @niceuneasy 11 місяців тому +2

    !loved Michael foot should of been knighted

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 6 місяців тому +4

      He turned down honours.

    • @DJSwezzleMusic
      @DJSwezzleMusic 3 місяці тому

      ​@@JamesRichards-mj9kwHe suffered from ADHD and autism in his later years.

  • @johnwalsh7806
    @johnwalsh7806 2 місяці тому

    Foot giving the big speech yap yap yap

  • @buckspa
    @buckspa Рік тому +3

    This was a few weeks after the Falklands war ended.

    • @PERCYxyz
      @PERCYxyz Рік тому

      The Falklands really was the final nail in the electoral coffin for Labour coming after the SDP split the previous year. Up until the Falklands war they had held a significant and sustained opinion poll lead over the Tories for nearly 3 years.

    • @JJVernig
      @JJVernig Рік тому +1

      @@PERCYxyz Another nail was their manifesto of 1983. It was a complete coffin with lining and all.

    • @PERCYxyz
      @PERCYxyz Рік тому

      @@JJVernig Yes, that is the accepted narrative.
      However, as I pointed out Labour held an average 7 point lead (IPSOS Mori) over the Tories from August 1979 until the start of the Falklands war in April 1982, after which the Tories consistently led right up until the June 1983 election. In fact the highest Tory lead of 27 points came in June 1982 at the end of the Falklands war, a full 9 months before the 1983 manifesto was released.
      "The longest suicide note in history" is a catchy phrase which did stick, but it does belie the tremendous impact the Falklands war had on the public mood of the time.

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 6 місяців тому

      @@PERCYxyz The Labour lead had begun to go down in January 1982.

    • @travishunter8940
      @travishunter8940 2 місяці тому

      @@JamesRichards-mj9kw Do you know where I can find this information?"

  • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
    @JamesRichards-mj9kw 6 місяців тому +1

    Foot was Agent Boot.

  • @carmencornelianastase1240
    @carmencornelianastase1240 Рік тому +2

    Poor England ..........