[garinda]

Originally Posted by garinda

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.

That's probably why there was always a massive crowd round Uncle Dick's on the market in the '60's.

It was that, or listening to some toff in a pin stripe drone on from his husting.