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Originally Posted by KiTChener
Did a monkey not once stand as a candidate for Hartlepool. hence your monicker? Or was that Hull?
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The successful mayoral candidate in the 2002 local elections, Stuart Drummond, campaigned dressed in the costume of H’Angus the Monkey, using the election slogan “free bananas for schoolchildren”, a promise he was unfortunately unable to keep. However this appears not to have dented his popularity, as he went on to be re-elected two more times.
Whatever the truth, the legend of Hartlepool and the hanged monkey has endured for over 200 years.