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  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    lol
  • Barn Door Varney
    Barn Door Varney Posts: 2,000
    [cite]Posted By: nolly[/cite]back to palin,nice guy dont you think?

    Looks like most people agree

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2007430272,00.html
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    The problem is I can't watch a Michael Palin travelog prgramme without hearing the words "Welease Woderwick".
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    "Was there not a Chartist "Riot" in London in 1848 on Mayday."

    .................

    That was not a riot, but a march and a demonstration regarding the presentation of a petition to demand the charter - things that included universal manhood suffrage, voting by secret ballot, equal sized constituencies, pay for MPs, annual elections and an end to the need for a property qualification for Parliament. All things that we take for granted, except for annual elections, but that was to make MPs more accountable to the electorate.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    BFR's been on Wikipedia again!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    [cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]"Was there not a Chartist "Riot" in London in 1848 on Mayday."

    .................

    That was not a riot, but a march and a demonstration regarding the presentation of a petition to demand the charter - things that included universal manhood suffrage, voting by secret ballot, equal sized constituencies, pay for MPs, annual elections and an end to the need for a property qualification for Parliament. All things that we take for granted, except for annual elections, but that was to make MPs more accountable to the electorate.

    Thanks BFR - sure it must of kicked off somewhere. Anyway point was that May Day was linked to radical causes at least that far back.

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