THE FEET are really getting into a dreadful muddle. It
all started when, as I predicted a fortnight ago, Mr. Dingle Foot announced in the News Chronicle that, for the first time in his life he was going to vote Labour. This brought a swift paternal rebuke from his father, Mr. Isaac Foot, followed by a sharper sally from his brother, Mr. John Foot. Mr. John Foot claimed to be speaking for the `respectable' members of the family. They, he said, hoped that Mr. Dingle Foot would be cut off with a shilling. He added that for twenty years Mr. Dingle Foot has been holding forth `at what the family consider to be quite unwarrantable lengths' about the iniquities of rigid party discipline—and now has joined the most rigidly disciplined party of all. The only member of the family who has remained silent is Mr, Michael Foot. But then he actually has something to do at the moment. He is a candidate—and matters politically.
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