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    Michael Foot

    Micheal Foot? Nope, sorry. Michael Foot? Ah! Now that's a different story. And I know where you live Debra, and everyone else for that matter. Unfortunately, I am bound by the laws of heaven to keep stum. Michael's Foot mark (sorry!) in history was the famous quote he dished out in Parliament during the Westland affair when Michael Heseltine resigned from the Thatcher government. In his resignation speech, Heseltine really dished out the dirt to the Thatcher government, but under pressure from the opposition Labour members, he tried to recover some dignity by criticising the then Labour leader, Neil Kinnock (hoping to win some applause from his embarassed Tory party members). At this point Michael Foot rose on the floor and said: "Heseltine's speech reminds me of what my once good friend Winston Churchill once said, that 'you can rat, but you can't re-rat". The entire parliament shook with laughter! Oh' those were the days - the good old politicians
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