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News and Comment May 2024

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28 May (Part 2) - Sixty years of elections

Marjorie My suggestion that I had a personal voting intention swingometer is not a very good analogy as it implies that it could move to the left, but that is never going to happen. Instead it quivers violently somewhere near the middle with occasional lurches to the right while the suspension hook might snap off at any moment and send the whole contraption crashing to the ground. (A spoiled paper!)

Meanwhile here is a picture from 16th October 1964 as Marjorie and I sat listening to my transistor radio as the General Election results came in and both of us becoming more depressed at the news. I think that radio will be in the roof somewhere. A red leatherette covered wooden box. I really must start to clear out all the old junk but it was a circa 1957 birthday present from a favourite aunt.

Marjorie came from Southend and had been working at that telephone exchange desk since before I was born. We went from the prosperous “You never had is so good” to “the [devalued] pound in your pocket” and eventually cap in hand to The International Monetary Fund for a bale out! Madness is repeating the mistakes of the past expecting a different outcome.

 

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