Foxy Dread wroteBBC2 tonight, I'm not sure when it was recorded, but Kinnock and Hattersley stuck the boot in with relish. In their eyes he cost them power. An over simplification, Militant would have happened regardless and therefore Liverpool too, the Miners Strike would have happened regardless. There was enough there to keep the rabid press going who were really off the leash in the 80s and loved nothing more than an Islington lefty lesbians story.
The programme suggested he was the mover of constitutional changes that led to the Gang of 4 leaving and that certainly didn't help and did contribute to the size of Thatchers second majority, but the Falklands was the key in 83.
Ha, get that airbrush going. Remember... Nice old buffer. All his former colleagues have grudge and are making it up. Probably a class thing, in that they don't like inherited entitlement. :D
