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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2019 22:31:33 GMT
This site would’ve been good in 1992.
The election thread would have been fun.
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Post by trekett on Aug 15, 2021 20:32:16 GMT
There are only 1,210 registered members on this forum, so it wouldn't have made a difference.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Aug 15, 2021 21:06:12 GMT
"Years ago" is a bit vague, isn't it? What era would you want to set your time travelling forum down in? the postwar Labour years? the thirties? Edwardian or Victorian England? Or anything else back say to classical Rome? Actually I rather fancy the post Waterloo era - radical reformers like Hunt to discuss and blue room denizens ,endlessly repeating the mantra that the British constitution was perfect, in the catch phrase of the good old duke. And of course rallying to the defence of the Corn Laws. And the creation of the railways! Imagine that! "I knew we had all been waiting for something to fill a gap in our very sense of existence, and now we have it!"  |
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Post by neilm on Aug 16, 2021 4:04:33 GMT
There are only 1,210 registered members on this forum, so it wouldn't have made a difference. It may have done depending on what marginals they were in. Anyway, the thread isn't about the impact of the forum on the election. |
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Post by arnieg on Aug 16, 2021 7:35:48 GMT
Well there might have been some interesting 19th century discussions about the wisdom of military involvement in Afghanistan, and probably a few comments that didn't age well.
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Post by froome on Aug 16, 2021 8:37:04 GMT
The Civil War would have made for interesting (and probably quite gruesome) discussions. Perhaps we should run a poll on who would have been a Roundhead and who would be fighting for the monarchy.
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Post by finsobruce on Aug 16, 2021 8:41:23 GMT
The Civil War would have made for interesting (and probably quite gruesome) discussions. Perhaps we should run a poll on who would have been a Roundhead and who would be fighting for the monarchy.I'm pretty certain we've done this before. |
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Post by Merseymike on Aug 16, 2021 8:51:07 GMT
The Civil War would have made for interesting (and probably quite gruesome) discussions. Perhaps we should run a poll on who would have been a Roundhead and who would be fighting for the monarchy.I'm pretty certain we've done this before. I think it was more about whether our outlook was closest to Cavalier or Roundhead? |
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Post by sirbenjamin on Aug 16, 2021 19:08:05 GMT
I'm pretty certain we've done this before. I think it was more about whether our outlook was closest to Cavalier or Roundhead?
An interesting dividing line, and one where seemingly disparate individuals can easily end up on the same side, as I suspect we would.
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Post by Merseymike on Aug 16, 2021 19:46:48 GMT
I think it was more about whether our outlook was closest to Cavalier or Roundhead? An interesting dividing line, and one where seemingly disparate individuals can easily end up on the same side, as I suspect we would.
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Post by islington on Aug 16, 2021 19:57:44 GMT
Both sides are almost equally unattractive but push come to shove, it would have to be Roundhead.
But in my view the best time for a site like this would have been any of the great phases of Parliamentary reform: 1831-32, 1866-68, 1884-85 or 1917-18.
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Post by manchesterman on Aug 17, 2021 15:33:33 GMT
Again, I would feel disenfranchised by two awful options. 'twas ever thus!
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Post by manchesterman on Aug 17, 2021 15:36:21 GMT
In terms of an interesting election not already mentioned, I think the 1945 GE would have been very interesting to discuss on a forum at the time. The Tories feeling extremely confident as the war wound down , as their leader had "delivered unto the country a great victory"; only to be slaughtered at the election itself!
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Aug 17, 2021 15:45:14 GMT
In terms of an interesting election not already mentioned, I think the 1945 GE would have been very interesting to discuss on a forum at the time. The Tories feeling extremely confident as the war wound down , as their leader had "delivered unto the country a great victory"; only to be slaughtered at the election itself! Would we have been keeping an eye on these 'new fangled BIPO polls'?  |
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Post by islington on Aug 17, 2021 16:06:10 GMT
Both sides are almost equally unattractive but push come to shove, it would have to be Roundhead.  Sorry, I know I've posted this illustration before, and recently, but I just can't resist. It makes me smile every time I see it: it does more at a single glance to make the Civil War explicable than reading a hundred books on the subject. |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 20, 2021 11:40:15 GMT
The question at the start of this thread is a proxy question for the alternative question of which events in politics and elections would we have been interested in remembering, or being aware of, from before we were old enough. I have been properly aware of MPs, constituencies, and by elections since 1983; I remember the multiple reports during 1981 of Labour MPs defecting to the SDP, and I remember the 1979 general election (although at the time I thought it was an election for prime minister, a contest between Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan).
So, fairly obviously, it would have been fun to be politically and psephologically aware of the events of the previous decade - the wafer-thin and declining majority of the Labour government, the big by-election swings of 1976, 1977 (and, for that matter, 1972 &1973).
1945 is the nearest real-life example of a fantasy idea I have often had: A world in which opinion polls do not exist - not that they have been banned, or anything like that, but just that it has never even occurred to anybody to do them.
Therefore, impending electoral disasters and landslides (like in 1945 or 1997) come as big, exciting and unexpected events, rather than outcomes which have been predicted or analysed to minute details of precision in advance.
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Post by ClevelandYorks on Aug 20, 2021 11:48:13 GMT
1945 is the nearest real-life example of a fantasy idea I have often had: A world in which opinion polls do not exist - not that they have been banned, or anything like that, but just that it has never even occurred to anybody to do them. Therefore, impending electoral disasters and landslides (like in 1945 or 1997) come as big, exciting and unexpected events, rather than outcomes which have been predicted or analysed to minute details of precision in advance. As far as I'm aware the 1945 election was still an exciting and unexpected event as nobody took any notice to opinion polls at that point and they were seen rather as phoney science. |
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 20, 2021 11:56:03 GMT
Yes, even most politicians on both sides ignored the polls in 1945 and were sure Churchill would be re-elected. Attlee was apparently one of the minority within Labour who thought they had a real chance, though even he was taken aback by the scale of their win.
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Post by slon on Aug 20, 2021 14:49:36 GMT
Thread with lots of adverse comments about the construction costs of Stonehenge and the network of Little Chef establishments.
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