Never a Yes Man

Just re-reading Eric Heffer's great autobiography 'Never a Yes Man'.

He wasn't perfect - who is - but Heffer was a proper 'great' of the labour movement; controversial (he is probably best remembered for walking off the platform at 1985 Labour Party conference when Neil Kinnock attacked the militant-led Liverpool City Council); robust; not an intellectual, but a real thinker nonetheless; principled; and, unusually in the Labour movement, capable of changing his mind and opinion in the face of events (Like many of his generation, for example, he was once a member of the CP and uncritical supporter of Stalin).

An adopted son of Liverpool he was also an Evertonian - so he was a sound bloke on that front as well!