Frasi di Michael Foot

Michael Mackintosh Foot è stato un politico, giornalista e scrittore britannico, leader del Partito Laburista dal 1980 al 1983. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Luglio 1913 – 3. Marzo 2010   •   Altri nomi Michael Mackintosh Foot
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“When I was a small boy, following the affairs of the House of Commons as closely as I could, I asked my father what a Royal Commission was. He said, "It is a broody hen sitting on a china egg."”

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1964/dec/03/schedule-7-commencement-transitional in the House of Commons (3 December 1964)
1960s

“It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat.”

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1978/mar/02/business-of-the-house in the House of Commons (2 March 1978), referring to Norman Tebbit
1970s

“How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges?"”

Attacking the National Industrial Relations Court and its President, Sir John Donaldson, in a speech at the Scottish Miners' Gala in Edinburgh (3 June 1972)
1970s

“Some fool or some trigger happy judicial finger.”

On the NIRC Judge Sir John Donaldson (Hansard, 7 May 1974, Col. 239)
1970s

“We had not the armour, the strength, the quickness in manoeuvre, yes, the leadership”

explaining Labour's 1983 election defeat when he was leader in his book Another Heart And Other Pulses, 1984.
1980s

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