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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 22, 2016 23:40:34 GMT
Election address of Sinclair Eustace, Independent candidate in the Kensington South byelection of March 1968. If you don't want to know the result, look away now.   This election address covered two and a half pages in International Times, a hippie subculture newspaper popular in the late 1960s which managed to become a cause célèbre. It was raised for obscenity in 1967, but the DPP decided not to bring charges. It was raided again in 1969 and three directors were convicted of 'conspiracy to corrupt public morals' for printing personal adverts from gay men seeking partners. |
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Post by David Ashforth on Dec 23, 2016 12:36:20 GMT
Election address for Labour candidate Joseph Pointer in Darnall ward, Sheffield, in the 1906 municipal elections. His pledges include a 48 hour working week, pure milk supply, free school meals, free hospital treatment, free water supplies and better housing. He was unsuccessful in the election: C H Wilson (Liberal) 1,567
J Pointer (Labour) 851
T Whittingham (Con) 683
Majority 716
Liberal HOLD
1906 was the first time Joseph Pointer had been a candidate, he stood again in Darnall ward in the 1907 elections where he was also unsuccessful. A J Bailey (Lib-Lab) 1,375
J Pointer (Labour) 1,335
Majority 40
Liberal HOLD He stood in Brightside ward in 1908 where he won. J Pointer (Labour) 1,679
W Worthington (Con) 1,381
G Carr (Liberal) 1,056
Majority 298
Labour HOLD
The first Labour councillor in Sheffield was elected in Brightside ward in 1905. In 1906 Labour won again in Brightside ward and in Darnall ward (a by-election). In 1907 Labour gained the third seat in Brightside ward. Joseph Pointer became Sheffield's first Labour MP at the 1909 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election.  |
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Post by An Sionnach Flannbhuí on Dec 23, 2016 15:00:48 GMT
 I think this seems like a very modern analysis of multiculturalism (and rather avant la lettre) and when I imagine there was not a single burqa to be seen, not least in South Kensington. It's the sort of thing I might expect to read in a 2016 copy of the Spectator criticising current immigration policy.  This, on the other hand, less perceptive. And I see the phenomenon of the constitutional reform/PR bore never goes away. |
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Post by Jack on Dec 23, 2016 15:21:17 GMT
"A sound and successful method of improving virility and increasing man's vital dimensions".
Surely I'm not the only one who noticed that advert...
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 23, 2016 20:00:59 GMT
"A sound and successful method of improving virility and increasing man's vital dimensions". Surely I'm not the only one who noticed that advert... That's one of the least saucy adverts in International Times. If you browse the archive (especially in early 1969) you'll find plenty of smut on sale in the classifieds: www.internationaltimes.it/archive/ |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 23, 2016 20:03:12 GMT
And I see the phenomenon of the constitutional reform/PR bore never goes away. Sinclair Eustace had been one of the Liberal Party candidates for Vauxhall in the 1961 London County Council election. |
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Post by Andrew_S on Dec 24, 2016 20:24:30 GMT
According to Wikipedia "IT first ceased publication in October 1973, after being convicted for running contact ads for gay men." Seems a bit odd when homosexuality had been legalised in 1967.
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 24, 2016 20:36:57 GMT
According to Wikipedia "IT first ceased publication in October 1973, after being convicted for running contact ads for gay men." Seems a bit odd when homosexuality had been legalised in 1967. This might help Andy : gayhistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/gay-personal-contact-adverts/ Prosecutions went on for some time on the basis that the ads were an attempt to "corrupt public morals". Homosexuality may have been legal but it was still persecuted and prosecuted... |
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Post by johnloony on Dec 24, 2016 22:39:59 GMT
According to Wikipedia "IT first ceased publication in October 1973, after being convicted for running contact ads for gay men." Seems a bit odd when homosexuality had been legalised in 1967. Experts who know more details than I do (Peter Tatchell, basically) would be able to explain that the "legalisation" of homosexuality in 1967 was actually quite limited, and was only the start of a gradual process. The laws were still quite strict in terms of (for example) how "private" was defined, or what men were actually allowed to do to meet each other. I remember recently reading a report in a newspaper from 1986 about two men who pleaded guilty to "outraging public decency" and were fined £30 simply for kissing in the street. The attitude of the police and courts in persecuting such minor things was changed somewhat in the late 1980s when Tatchell and his Outrage! gang started to flaunt themselves deliberately for the purpose of getting arrested and cluttering up the courts with pointless trivial cases (thereby demonstrating the point that it was a waste of time and money) rather than allowing the police to harass harmless gay men for the fun of it. |
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Post by cibwr on Dec 25, 2016 15:25:04 GMT
According to Wikipedia "IT first ceased publication in October 1973, after being convicted for running contact ads for gay men." Seems a bit odd when homosexuality had been legalised in 1967. Experts who know more details than I do (Peter Tatchell, basically) would be able to explain that the "legalisation" of homosexuality in 1967 was actually quite limited, and was only the start of a gradual process. The laws were still quite strict in terms of (for example) how "private" was defined, or what men were actually allowed to do to meet each other. I remember recently reading a report in a newspaper from 1986 about two men who pleaded guilty to "outraging public decency" and were fined £30 simply for kissing in the street. The attitude of the police and courts in persecuting such minor things was changed somewhat in the late 1980s when Tatchell and his Outrage! gang started to flaunt themselves deliberately for the purpose of getting arrested and cluttering up the courts with pointless trivial cases (thereby demonstrating the point that it was a waste of time and money) rather than allowing the police to harass harmless gay men for the fun of it. Technically the law reform of 1967 didn't actually legalise homosexual conduct, just offered a defense against prosecution. Thus technically all homosexual acts were illegal but not prosecutable within very narrow definitions. So it was against public policy to permit any LGBi organisations to gain public recognition i.e. charitable status, though some could, and did incorporate as Friendly Societies. Any form of attempting to arrange contact for the purpose of having sex could and was construed as importuning for immoral purposes. In theory the only way that two men could legally have sex would be to spontaneously fall into bed without discussion and by mutual desire (provided that it was a private place where no one else had access and no other people were present in the building, both over 21 and both of sound mind). |
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Post by David Ashforth on Dec 29, 2016 16:22:49 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 29, 2016 18:16:24 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 29, 2016 18:21:45 GMT
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Post by Crimson King on Dec 29, 2016 21:33:24 GMT
is it just me, or does ncropa sound like the sort of activity that would be considered obscene if in a publication
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Post by greenchristian on Dec 29, 2016 22:54:19 GMT
His case might have been stronger if he'd bothered to change the name on his bank account, rather than getting the deed poll and only using it to try getting on the ballot paper under that name. |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 5, 2017 12:30:28 GMT
Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more.  |
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Post by thetop on Jun 5, 2017 12:45:50 GMT
Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more. Thank God we had Mrs McWatters to explain to women that socialists are after the Housewife.  |
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