Labour really should have went with someone like Healey however let’s be honest most just didn’t want Benn getting control
Agreed, Healey should have been leader though he was tainted by the runaway inflation and necessity for an IMF Loan when Chancellor in the mid ’70s. A tough old bruiser who would have given Thatcher a hard time.
I’m sure you remember but for those who weren’t around at the time Foot’s 1983 election manifesto was described as ‘the longest suicide note in history’, by another Labour MP Gerald Kaufman, if memory serves.
Like Michael Foot, Tony Benn was another I always enjoyed listening to, despite them inhabiting a left-wing la-la land that didn’t – and never will – appeal to more than a minority of the electorate.
As for appearance it amused me that Jeremy Corbyn had something of a makeover on becoming leader: hair and beard neatly trimmed, and crumpled fawn jackets replaced with sober ironed grey ones. Though he seems to have reverted to the retired geography teacher look now he’s returned to the back benches 