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Originally Posted by jaysay
when I started in politics in the early 60s, GE candidate spoke at public meetings, got on their soap box on the market, and knew how to play to the audience
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Hell's bells.
Your Conservative soap boxers in those days must have been mind numbingly boring, and certainly didn't know how to hold much of a crowd.
Considering the fallow period, between 1931 and 1983, when Accrington/Hyndburn didn't return a Conservative M.P.
Those poor beggars could probably have benefited from a bit of spin...or balloons, or something else eye-catching, to grab folks attention.
