Michael Foot, the last in a long line of radical polemicists | Politics | The Observer .
'I judge a man by one thing, which side would he have liked his ancestors to fight on at Marston Moor?" So said Isaac Foot, West Country bibliophile, Liberal MP, Nonconformist and father of Michael Foot.
You don't need to ask me, do you?
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I didn’t think you Quakers did much fighting, Richard?
But the question is interesting. I think you can judge somebody on many things, but it takes a particularly bizzare sort of thought process to judge someone on which side they would have supported in a centuries old war. It sounds good in the abstract, but I would sooner judge someone on their actions.
I imagine Pol Pot would have fought against the Royalists, for example, but if there is a God I hope he judges Pol Pot on the millions that he killed rather than on his views of the English Civil War.
FWIW, I’d always try not to fight as I imagine I’d get killed. That’s the problem with being a short-sighted type. But I don’t like men with ponytails, so its the republicans for me.