Smiling beside Lord Bragg on the platform was Labour's onetime leader and devoted Bevanite, Michael Foot .
The gag borrows from Gerald Kaufman's description of Michael Foot's Labour manifesto in 1983.
Mr Hague's personal ratings have plumbed depths not seen since Michael Foot's hapless leadership of Labour in the 1980s.
Just before Christmas, five years ago in fact, I interviewed her alongside that other stalwart of the party, Michael Foot.
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Victory in the Falklands, together with disarray in the Labour Party, now led by Michael Foot, ensured a Conservative landslide in the 1983 election.
Labour is defending a 19, 313 majority in the seat, which has been held by the NHS' founding father, Aneurin Bevan, and former Labour leader Michael Foot.
Every September there would be a march to Trafalgar Square to hear poignant speeches from Allende's widow, and rousing ones from Labour heroes like Michael Foot.
The party is haunted by its botched transition to opposition 30 years ago, when the complacency of moderates allowed the left-wing Michael Foot narrowly to win control of the party.
Labour's poll ratings have slumped to just 23% - lower than when Michael Foot was party leader in the 1980s - according to a survey of 2, 246 people by BPIX for the Mail on Sunday.
If the Tories veer to the right or towards a visceral anti-Europeanism, they are likely to suffer the same fate as the Labour Party after it chose the left-wing Michael Foot as its leader in 1980.
At the end of the war he joined the Royal Marines, but a chance encounter with the father of the future Labour leader, Michael Foot, persuaded him that no intelligent man should stay in the forces.
Despite suffering his first heart attack in 1988, a leaner John Smith prevailed and, after the failed attempts by Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock to overthrow Margaret Thatcher and then John Major, he was elected to party leadership in 1992.
Too narrow class identity, too great hostility to the market, too complacent acceptance of a centralised state these were the banes that marred Labourism even in its finest hour under Clement Attlee, and eventually brought it to a dead-end under Michael Foot.
So it was that in 1968 Labour's Michael Foot - who wanted to scrap the Lords altogether - united with the then Tory Enoch Powell - who wanted it to stay just as it was - and led a coalition which defeated change.
While Mrs Thatcher was carrying all before her, the Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock was fighting energy-sapping battles on separate fronts: rebuilding Labour's electoral support after their crushing defeat under Michael Foot while also rooting-out Militant, which he believed was becoming a cancerous "party within a party".
The seven foot bronze statue depicts Michael Collins as he spoke at a 1922 general election rally in Clonakility.
Glenn Ferguson curled a left-foot shot into the top corner in the 34th minute and Michael Carvill made it 2-0 with a stunning right-foot volley after 51.
Led by versatile 6-foot-6 point guard Michael Carter-Williams, sharpshooting forward James Southerland, and do-it-all swingman C.
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Michael Carter-Williams, a 6-foot-6 guard who is out front in the zone, was named the regional's top player after accounting for 12 points, eight rebounds, six assists, five steals and only one turnover Saturday.
Morneau, who had four hits and drove in three runs, doubled in a run, then Michael Saunders walked and Robinson was hit in the foot by a pitch.
Like we did to Michael (Vaughan), we kept him on the back foot in terms of his performance and as a captain you know that pressure grows very quickly.
The first chance came for the Lanarkshire side when Law was put through on goal by Michael Higdon, but he could only sweep a left-foot effort well wide from around eight yards.
Five minutes before half-time Rose made amends, finding space in the box to side-foot home after Carroll had nodded down a deep ball from Michael Mancienne.
The 21-year-old winger again cut inside and shrugged off the challenges of Galbraith, Michael Hart, Bamba and Liam Miller before tucking a cool right-foot finish low past Brown from just inside the penalty box.
Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove said it was "unfair and unrealistic" to expect taxpayers to foot the increasing public sector pensions bill.
The closest they came to scoring was Emmanuel Eboue's deflected right-foot shot on the edge of the 18-yard box, while Michael Turner thwarted Adebayor with yet another well-timed challenge.
The 11, 962-square-foot space originally existed as four separate units on the 16th floor of the Michael Graves building on South Beach.
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Prosecutor Michael Speak told the court that the dead man was a drug dealer who was bound hand and foot in his ground floor flat.
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