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How to capture the Tonbridge Tories (Cody Butler)
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The bigger your car, the bigger your fuel duty cut (Mark Hofman)
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A call for reform with a small “r” (Keith Creswell)
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Liberals debate (Lucas North)
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What do we think of Ed Davey’s tax cut announcement? (Caron Lindsay)
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Brexit was a 'unilateral declaration of political impotence'
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Ken Farnes: The forgotten England fast bowler who died in WWII
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Local campaigner wants to see the River Teme given rights
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The Hecklers: a great documentary about the 1966 election
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Plaid Cymru take another step into the twilight zone
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Lord Bonkers Diary: "Burnham is hiding In The North"
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The more fuel you use, the more you are having to pay extra due to rising fuel prices. Since most of the cost of filling your car with fuel goes straight to the...
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I’ve never forgotten the juxtaposition of signs which appeared on a farm gate in Worplesdon, Woking during the 1964 General Election.
Reading from the top, they declared;
“Manure One Shilling a Bag.
Vote Cranley Onslow
Conservative”
I forget the context, but he was once famously referred to as Sir Crapley Onslow.
This is worth a real cheer.
Anyone remember the Tory posters in the Winchester by election where the losing tory Gerry Malone won High Court battle to rerun the electionary without the support of the local tory association? His posters were amended to read Gerry Alone.
@ Kay Kirkham. I don’t recall seeing one of those. However, I did see one on which the photo of Gerry Malone had been embellished with a pair of horns and the words “is evil” had been added beneath his name.
During the 1997 General Election the Tories in South West Surrey opted for large diamond shaped stake boards in support of:
Virginia
Bottomley
Some of them succumbed to the surgical removal of the right-hand corner. As Chair of the local LibDems at that time, I never did discover the culprit(s), although I did have my suspicions.