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When I first voted Heath and Wilson were locked in a titanic struggle...
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...the Gladstone and Disraeli of their day, I suppose. Brown and Cameron seem dull by comparison. What's your memories of the first time you penciled in your X?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It would be 1979 and I had just turned 18. I voted James Callaghan but the dreaded Maggie T got it. I turned up at the polling station with a red rose in my lapel (or was that the next election....Kinnock? Can't remember now).
This is 'farming' country - lots of rich farmers & landowners and has a big Conservative majority,,,, so moi with my single red rose got a few disapproving looks. BUt I was into Politics then (just cos I was 'doing' sociology at college!!) and was very anti-thatcher back then.
This is 'farming' country - lots of rich farmers & landowners and has a big Conservative majority,,,, so moi with my single red rose got a few disapproving looks. BUt I was into Politics then (just cos I was 'doing' sociology at college!!) and was very anti-thatcher back then.
The first election I could vote in was 1987
http://en.wikipedia.o...eneral_election,_1987
I voted for the "Iron Lady"
Charisma does seem to have gone out of fashion now!
http://en.wikipedia.o...eneral_election,_1987
I voted for the "Iron Lady"
Charisma does seem to have gone out of fashion now!
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