ABSTRACT
Michael Foot was a British Labour Party politician he opposed a British stateswoman and politician Margaret Thatcher's efforts to break up trade unions that governed coal mining in Wales, where Foot represented the Ebbw Vale constituency in Parliament. Foot became leader of the Labour party the very year after Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of Great Britain. When the Labour party backed the Vietnam War in Britain, Foot did not, speaking out in opposition as Byron had done in 1812. In 1967, Robert Gleckner published Byron and the Ruins of Paradise, which ignored Byron's politics, except to portray them as defeatist and apocalyptic, not surprising at the height of US involvement in Vietnam. Thatcher rejected New Deal socialism and de-nationalized industries, drastically weakening the trade union movement in Britain. Byron's universality, extending as far afield as Moscow and Chicago, where the Labour Union movement drew inspiration from the English Chartists.
