IT dare ne wanda ba a mantawa da shi ba, kodayake galibi saboda dalilan da ba su da daɗi sosai. A ranar 9 ga Yuni, 1983, na yi jarrabawar jami’a ta ƙarshe. Ya kasance ranar zabe a Biritaniya, kuma da yammacin wannan rana ni da abokanan Indiya biyu muka taru don kallon yadda sakamakon zaben ya shigo.
Babu wani bege a cikin jahannama na gwamnatin Margaret Thatcher da aka kori, kamar yadda ta cancanci zama; kawai tuhuma ta ta'allaka ne akan girman sabon rinjayenta. Biyu daga cikinmu mun ƙudurta cewa za mu nutsar da baƙin cikinmu; na ukun wanda muka ba da umarnin dakin kwanansa, ya kasance musulmi ne mai kishin addini, ya dage cewa mu zo da namu tumblers.
A cikin al'amarin, babu ƙarancin baƙin ciki da za a nutse, kuma yayin da wurin zama bayan kujera ya faɗi a kan Tories, muna cikin damuwa da barci, muna farkawa bayan 'yan sa'o'i don gano cewa girman barnar ya ma fi mu muni. tsoro. Shekaru da dama kenan da jam'iyyar Labour ta sha irin wannan gagarumin kaye.
Ban tabbata ba ko abin ya same mu a lokacin da muke ganin daya daga cikin mafi duhun sa'o'i na Labour daga wurin - Kwalejin Wadham ta Oxford - inda shugaban jam'iyyar, Michael Foot, ya kasance dalibi mai ban sha'awa kimanin rabin karni da suka wuce.
Kafa, wanda ya mutu a makon da ya gabata yana da shekaru 96, ya kasance mafi kyawun mutum da ya jagoranci babbar jam'iyyar siyasar Burtaniya; Ba abin mamaki ba, a cikin tabarbarewar siyasar zamani, wannan kyakkyawan hali – wanda ya bayyana, a cikin wani gagarumin rashin buri na kansa – bai yi masa komai ba.
Sunan ƙafa yana da ɗan gurguzu mai ƙima - wanda ya kasance ko kaɗan a cikin shekarun da ya yi a gwamnati a cikin 1970s, na farko a ƙarƙashin Harold Wilson sannan kuma a matsayin mataimakin firayim minista ga Jim Callaghan - babu makawa yana nufin cewa a matsayinsa na ɗan adawa zai ci gaba da kai masa hari. musamman daga Tory press.
Tabloid na hannun dama sun kasance masu mugun nufi a cikin shekarun da suka gabata kafin zaben 1983, suna bayyana shi a matsayin babban battin dattijo kuma yana kwatankwacin kamanninsa da halin gidan talabijin na yara Worzel Gummidge, mai tsoro mai rai. An ba shi horo don halartar hidimar Ranar Tunawa a Cenotaph a cikin 1981 a cikin abin da aka bayyana a matsayin "jakin jaki", abin da ke nuni da cewa ko ta yaya ya raina tunawa da mutuwar yakin Biritaniya ta hanyar juyowa cikin rigar da ba ta dace ba.
Shawarar cewa ko ta yaya ya gaza tabo a sashen kishin kasa ba ta da hankali: idan wani abu, Kafa ya fi boye boye ta wannan fuskar. Yana daga cikin wadanda suka kafa Yakin Neman Kashe Makaman Nukiliya (CND) kuma ya bayyana kansa a matsayin "mai son zaman lafiya", amma duk da haka ya goyi bayan aikewa da wata tawagar Burtaniya da Margaret Thatcher ta yi don kwato tsibirin Falkland daga Argentina.
Wannan ba misali ba ne na munafunci: Ƙafa ya kasance daidai a cikin imaninsa cewa dole ne a yi tsayayya da zalunci na farkisanci, kuma a cikin 1940 ya kasance farkon marubucin sanannen labaran polemical mai suna. Maza Laifi, wanda ya dauki nauyin ayyukan Nazi a tsakanin kafa Birtaniya. A cikin 1982, shugaban mulkin soja na Argentina, Leopoldo Galtieri, ya tuna masa da Benito Mussolini. (Ba kamar Thatcher ba, ya riƙe Augusto Pinochet na Chile daidai gwargwado.) A cikin 1990s, irin wannan sha'awar ta sa shi ya goyi bayan tsoma bakin Nato a tsohuwar Yugoslavia.
Yana da kyau a lura, ko da yake, Foot yana goyon bayan rundunar ta Kudu ta Atlantic da aka yi amfani da shi da farko don matsawa Argentina ta ficewa cikin lumana daga Falklands/Malvinas maimakon fara tashin hankali nan da nan. Kuma mai yiwuwa bai yi ciniki ba game da mummunar guguwar jingoism da yakin Kudancin Atlantika ya haifar, wanda ta hanyar ijma'i na bai ɗaya ya sauƙaƙa nasarar zaben Thatcher a shekara mai zuwa.
Duk da haka, rikice-rikice a cikin Jam'iyyar Labour sun ba da gudummawa ba tare da wata shakka ba ga rashin kyawunta. Duk da kokarin da ya yi, Foot ya kasa hana gungun manyan masu fada a ji na hannun dama - Gang of Four, kamar yadda ake kiran su a lokacin - daga gudanar da gagarumin ficewa zuwa kafa jam'iyyar Social Democratic Party (SDP), wanda ya ja hankalin jama'a. wasu 'yan majalisar Labour da kuma, a cikin 1983, sun raba kuri'ar anti-Tory.
Kamar yadda yawancin harajin da aka yi a makon da ya gabata suka lura, abin yaba Foot ne cewa ya sami damar ci gaba da dorewar Labour a matsayin babban coci. Ganin cewa ba za a iya shakkar sahihancinsa na ɗan hagu ba, ya yi hakan ne a wani bangare ta hanyar ba da damar samun hanyarsa, wanda hakan ya haifar da tunanin cewa shi ne fursunonin sojojin da ya raina yawancin abin da ya tsaya a kai.
Wannan rauni - ko kuma aiwatarwa, ya danganta da ra'ayinku - ya ba da gudummawa ga tunanin cewa babban aibi na Labour a cikin 1983 yana cikin tsarin gurguzu kanta kanta (bayanan jam'iyyar da ba ta da tushe a waccan shekarar an bayyana shi ta hannun babban dan majalisar dama Gerald Kaufman a matsayin "mafi tsayi). bayanin kashe kansa a cikin tarihi”), maimakon rashin iya aiwatar da shi a dunkule, yana ba da hanya don tsayawa tsayin daka zuwa dama – da kuma dawowar sa kan mulki a karkashin shugaba wanda Thatcher ya yi farin cikin nada shi a matsayin magajin da ya cancanta a fagen tattalin arziki.
A wannan daren na zaman makoki a watan Yunin 1983, ba daya ba sai dai firaministan jam'iyyar Labour guda biyu da suka shiga majalisar a karon farko. Dukansu Tony Blair da Gordon Brown sun yi ta yabon Foot a makon da ya gabata, haka kuma da yawa daga cikin tsoffin abokan hamayyarsa, suna tunawa da akidarsa da kuma hazaka da hazikancin da suka ba da gudummawa wajen daukaka matsayinsa na mai magana da yawun majalisar. Duk da bayanin da ba za a manta da shi ba na Norman Tebbit a matsayin "ƙwararren ƙwararren ƙwararren gida", Foot da wuya yana da kakkausar kalma da zai faɗi game da kowa kuma bai taɓa sukar Blair ko Brown a bainar jama'a ba - kodayake, duk da raunin jikinsa, ya dage da yin magana a babban abin da ba a taɓa gani ba. An gudanar da zanga-zangar nuna adawa da yaki a birnin Landan a daidai lokacin da sojoji suka kai farmaki kan Iraki.
Hakazalika, ƙaunar da ya yi wahayi ba ta iyakance ga abokan akida ba: shekarun da suka gabata, ya ƙidaya Lord Beaverbrook da Enoch Powell a cikin abokansa. A matsayinsa na ɗan fafutuka, ɗan jarida, marubuci kuma ɗan siyasa mai gaskiya, akwai abubuwa da yawa a cikin tarihin Foot wanda ya dusashe mahimmancin aikin Labour na 1983, ko da kuwa ba za a iya mantawa da shi gaba ɗaya ba.
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