 Towards perceived adversaries , Bessie showed neither patience nor respect , especially those with whom she had once shared common ground on the far left . Apart from her attacks on Bevan , she displayed particular scorn for the future Labour Party leader Michael Foot , whose practice in the 1950s of writing articles attacking the Labour leadership for right @-@ wing newspapers was , she thought , disloyal . A much reported exchange between her and Churchill has her accusing him of being drunk , and him concurring but adding : " My dear you are ugly , but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly " — or similar words . There is no reliable evidence that any such exchange took place ; despite its popularity , commentators are generally sceptical . According to the columnist Simon Hoggart , similar stories involving other figures had been circulating for years ; he concluded : " If it sounds true , if it echoes something we feel about the politician , then it will cling to him or her as if bonded with superglue " . 
