Not coming clean on this one because it will give away my age, which I assure you is between 23 and 73. So have to think of a political memory.
Better not mention the Night of the Long Knives, the Cuban Missile Crisis or Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood Speech, nor the Jubelo, Jubela, and Jubelum re-run on the Triple Underpass at
So, apart from Mark Felt Lovelace, the one who always intrigued me was the arch hp-hp-hp military nutter G. Gordon Liddy. There was a possibly apocryphal story [surprisingly not denied over here] that Liddy was once talking to his opposite number among the Russkies [or was it the Chinese?] and it was a vital meeting in that both sides were trying to show how hard they were.
Liddy lit a candle or a cigarette lighter, whatever and proceeded to hold his hand over the flame, letting the flesh burn. The Russkie is supposed to have gone away convinced that the Americans were total nutters. Thanks, Gordon.
I lived through the Winter of Discontent of 1979 and clearly remember Stand Down Margaret in 1990 and was over in
I hereby tag Mutley the Dog, Ordovicius, Pub Philosopher, Stan and Steve Green. If any of these have already been tagged, consider yourselves double-tagged, chaps.
Love the Liddy story. Born 1984, eh?
ReplyDeleteGood tagging!
ReplyDeleteGood post.
You see I'd imagined your first memory was the Younger Pitt in 1783! Damn I was wrong or Boudicea, I was convinced you were around then. :)
ReplyDeleteCheers James!
Cheers James,
ReplyDeleteBut I was already tagged by Grendel.
I'm guilty of starting the meme, sorry James!
ReplyDeleteAh, TD - I tagged the tagger! Go straight to jail! Sorry.
ReplyDeleteBR - spasibo.
Tiberius - 1934 actually, TG.
DR - Ah - got it wrong again! Have to stop taking these pills.