The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 25, 2016 10:22:47 GMT
Ah right, shows how the memory plays tricks (it was 19 years ago now, after all - now that's depressing)
I'm sure UKIP beat the Referendum Party somewhere in that election......
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Post by timrollpickering on Oct 25, 2016 10:24:29 GMT
Alan Sked beat them in Romsey.
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Post by johnloony on Oct 25, 2016 14:51:29 GMT
If I remember 'Were you still up for Portillo?' right, Mellor had actually provoked the jeering by making some snide comment likening the minor candidates to zoo animals. The confusion in this thread seems to have been caused by ambiguity about which candidates David (and/or Mellor) was referring to. Is there a direct quote of the exact wording he used? Or a link? Apart from his reference to Goldsmith's "attempt to buy the political process ", I don't remember a reference to other minor parties or candidates. |
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Post by johnloony on Oct 25, 2016 14:58:51 GMT
I don't understand your last paragraph. I don't follow the use of the word increase in front of many of your stats not all of which make sense. The word "increase" refers to the previous number, indicating whether it increased on the previous number. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Nov 24, 2016 12:57:10 GMT
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Post by gwynthegriff on Nov 24, 2016 13:48:21 GMT
Received it. Watched it. Hated it.
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Post by swingometer on Apr 30, 2024 0:27:13 GMT
The lucky Tories who proved themselves, £ signs are those were they lost their seats anyway. Only fourth of the sixty five voted against Maastricht, the twenty remaining ones were on the payroll vote or were government ministers. Sad that Warren Hawksley misses out on this list, didn’t matter in the end.
1 Teresa Gorman MP, Billericay
2 Tony Marlow MP, Northampton North £
3 Richard Shepherd MP, Aldridge Brownhills
4 Christopher Gill MP, Ludlow
5 Michael Carttiss MP, Great Yarmouth £
6 John Wilkinson MP, Ruislip Northwood
7 Harry Greenway MP, Ealing North £
8 Nirj Deva MP, Brentford And Isleworth £
9 Toby Jessel MP, Twickenham £
10 Sir Rhodes Boyson MP, Brent North £
11 Alan Clark, Kensington and Chelsea
12 Eric Forth MP, Bromley and Chislehurst
13 Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, Chingford and Woodford Green
14 Vivian Bendall MP, Ilford North £
15 Robert Dunn MP, Dartford £
16 Jonathan Aitken MP, South Thanet £
17 David Evans MP, Welwyn Hatfield £
18 Peter Lilley MP, Hitchin and Harpenden
19 John Whittingdale MP, Maldon and East Chelmsford
20 Bernard Jenkin MP, North Essex
21 Sir Teddy Taylor MP, Rochford and Southend East
22 Sir Michael Lord MP, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
23 David Porter MP, Waveney £
24 Sir Richard Body MP, Boston and Skegness
25 Sir Peter Tapsell MP, Louth and Horncastle
26 Edward Leigh MP, Gainsborough
27 Sir Peter Fry MP, Wellingborough £
28 Barry Legg MP, Milton Keynes South West £
29 John Redwood MP, Wokingham
30 Bill Cash MP, Stone
31 Ivan Lawrence MP, Burton £
32 Nicholas Budgen MP, Wolverhampton South West £
33 James Pawsey MP, Rugby and Kenilworth £
34 Roger Knapman MP, Stroud
35 Adrian Rogers Exeter £
36 Gerald Howarth, Aldershot
37 Julian Lewis, New Forest East
38 Nicholas Winterton MP, Macclesfield
39 Ann Winterton MP, Congleton
40 John Townend MP, Yorkshire East
41 John Bercow, Buckingham
42 Walter Sweeney MP, Vale Of Glamorgan
43 Bill Walker MP, East Tayside
44 Michael Forsyth MP, Stirling
45 Graham Riddick MP, Colne Valley
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Post by November_Rain on Jun 9, 2024 14:37:37 GMT
I remember seeing it around Easter 1997 (I was 12 then) on my Grandparents side cabinet in the living room. They both threw it out saying "junk".
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jun 9, 2024 15:06:43 GMT
I remember seeing it around Easter 1997 (I was 12 then) on my Grandparents side cabinet in the living room. They both threw it out saying "junk". My dad voted Referendum Party. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 9, 2024 20:18:46 GMT
I didn't receive a copy but my grandparents did, which is the one that I uploaded. I can also remember watching another Referendum Party broadcast on TV which was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen at the time, because it featured an elderly man sternly asking questions of Sir James Goldsmith as if he — the other man — were an impartial interviewer, and then right at the end of the broadcast they both turned to the camera and it became obvious the other man was just as much a supporter of the Referendum Party as Sir James. Why they thought this was a good way of conducting an interview has always been a mystery to me. I've tried to find this broadcast on YouTube but without success so far. I'd like to see it again. Yes I remember that it was hilarious. I hope you or someone else can find it What I find worrying here is that apparently I remembered this thing fully 19 years after it was broadcast (I can't imagine why I would have said so if it wasn't true) but less than 8 years on I have absolutely zero recollection of it. I don't even have a recollection of having had a recollection of it. |
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Post by Jack on Jun 9, 2024 20:33:46 GMT
Yes I remember that it was hilarious. I hope you or someone else can find it What I find worrying here is that apparently I remembered this thing fully 19 years after it was broadcast (I can't imagine why I would have said so if it wasn't true) but less than 8 years on I have absolutely zero recollection of it. I don't even have a recollection of having had a recollection of it. Don't worry, Pete. The Labour Party will keep the triple lock.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2024 17:13:38 GMT
Has anyone still got a bottle of Ashdown's Ale, Tony's Tipple or Major's Mild?
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Post by johnloony on Jun 10, 2024 20:04:18 GMT
Back to the Referendum Party video: one thing which I immediately noticed when I first watched it (and have remembered ever since) is the edit cut at 8:02 in which the position of his right hand changes. It is not as obvious as I had remembered it, but still noticeable. The revival of this thread prompted me to want to make this comment about the most memorable bit, but upon checking the thread I notice I already said it, so ditto. |
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Post by observer on Jun 10, 2024 20:39:37 GMT
Back to the Referendum Party video: one thing which I immediately noticed when I first watched it (and have remembered ever since) is the edit cut at 8:02 in which the position of his right hand changes. It is not as obvious as I had remembered it, but still noticeable. The revival of this thread prompted me to want to make this comment about the most memorable bit, but upon checking the thread I notice I already said it, so ditto. I didn't receive the video at home but I was given one personally by a Referendum Party candidate. I was already very hostile to the EU going back to my Labour days and had been very angered by the Maastricht Treaty. So I gave the video a go and found it very factual. Part of my political education. I have, from around that period, only ever voted for anti-EU parties, including once for the Greens - people forget that they were also hostile to the EU. I didn't in fact vote in 1997 for the Referendum Party despite having seen the video and having respect for their candidate. I realised that my constituency had an early UKIP candidate and he got my vote. I had previously been a Labour local election organiser, ward sec, ward treasurer, Young Socialist treasurer and much more but lost heart when Kinnock, then Blair, betrayed the party's previous stance |
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