General Election (1945)

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  • @kevinjones4559
    @kevinjones4559 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    No party names on the ballot, you had to know who the candidate represented

    • @toohdvaetihom7088
      @toohdvaetihom7088 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just shows how stupider the electorate has become over time

  • @RSDonovan
    @RSDonovan ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fabulous production. Historical gold dust.

  • @waltertaylor44
    @waltertaylor44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I thought this would have been the end of John Profumo's political career. How wrong i was.

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Profumious comment

    • @waltertaylor44
      @waltertaylor44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Indeed 😂 ​@@BossySwan

    • @asianguy86
      @asianguy86 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@waltertaylor44 Churchill lost

  • @victorhunt5788
    @victorhunt5788 9 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Obviously no bias in political candidates propriety, Cough ! but Christine Keeler wasn't in circulation as a born again liberation celebrity until 1963. Then we had a Labour majority who won support of the Government and in 1946/7 they declared a National Health Service. Then we all lived happily ever after till 2015.

    • @harsimaja9517
      @harsimaja9517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Keeler would have been 3 at the time shown here, while Profumo was running for re-election...

    • @elrjames7799
      @elrjames7799 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Victor Hunt. An apparently diffuse post: how are any of the assertions logically connected to one another in actual historicity?

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@elrjames7799 THATS A NEW WORD ---GIVE US ANOTHER.

  • @garethomas1951
    @garethomas1951 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Marvellous! A country that I once recognised as my own. Sadly gone forever...

    • @EI6DP
      @EI6DP หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, Enoch Powell must be turning in his grave looking at England today.

  • @attlee45
    @attlee45 11 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    How refreshing to see politicians being shyly stilted on camera. Dick Mitchison, of course, won very solidly with a majority of 6400, dolding until 1964.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      MMMMAAVELOUS

  • @misterteaification
    @misterteaification 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    7:05 "..what politics are all about" - it was a different world when it came to language, too.

  • @dereks1264
    @dereks1264 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hearing Profumo at 8:16 I couldn't help but hear "Number Six" saying: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.""

  • @ageinggingernut
    @ageinggingernut 11 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Profumo is apt, i.e. the Profumo Affair in 1963

    • @harsimaja9517
      @harsimaja9517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Keeler would have been 3 here, while Profumo was running for re-election...

  • @liamkatt6434
    @liamkatt6434 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Isle of Man is not part of the parliamentary constituency map of the UK.

  •  7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Members of the armed forces defeated Churchill because they disliked him immensely (according to author Edmund Wilson). The Government promised " Homes for Heroes" after WW I. They never delivered on that promise, and in 1945, the chicken came home to roost.

  • @dj2prince
    @dj2prince 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dempsey looks like Huey Long in glasses

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "The candidates take an interest in the youth of their constituency. "
    Not words you'd want read out these days.

    • @AFord1981
      @AFord1981 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Profumo did even years later!

  • @vijethdeck2812
    @vijethdeck2812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love to watch black and white films

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:43 me whenever I’m offered cake

  • @AFord1981
    @AFord1981 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So which party won lads?

  • @chriswade7470
    @chriswade7470 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    We have to remember if the Tory Party had been elected in the 1945 General Election, we probably wouldn’t have an NHS.

    • @romanboxing3959
      @romanboxing3959 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Problem with that is?

  • @iancarr8682
    @iancarr8682 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Should have kept your seatbelt on Profumo!

  • @EI6DP
    @EI6DP หลายเดือนก่อน

    Profumo didn't do to well in his political career in later life in the now infamous *Profumo affair*
    Opening the ballot boxes made me chuckle, here in Ireland if one of the major political parties were doing badly in the voters count, surprisingly an extra few unopened ballot boxes would be found in Garda Station (Police Station) which would swing the vote for the major party.

  • @Sennmut
    @Sennmut 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just curious...if the candidate has to forfeit the 150 pounds, who gets the money?

    • @5implesimon
      @5implesimon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Goes into that councils next election costs

    • @MarkWhiley
      @MarkWhiley 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Local council elections do not have deposits. For parliamentary elections, the lost deposit (currently 500 pounds) goes to the Treasury’s Consolidated Fund (CF). The CF was first set up in 1787 as ‘one fund into which shall flow
      every stream of public revenue and from which shall come the supply for every
      service’. It's basically a bank account for the government at the Bank of England.
      commonslibrary.parliament.uk/lost-deposits/

    • @paulbriggs3072
      @paulbriggs3072 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Basically its a conspiracy by the main parties to penalize the little guy for entering the race.

  • @toohdvaetihom7088
    @toohdvaetihom7088 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    None of the British people in this video have British accents.

    • @EI6DP
      @EI6DP หลายเดือนก่อน

      Quiet incorrect. That is how British people spoke back then.

  • @elrjames7799
    @elrjames7799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Astonishing Valerie Hobson married him in the first place and stood by him in the second.

    • @davidpollard4051
      @davidpollard4051 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They didn't get married until 1954 by which time he was MP for Stratford upon Avon and was rising rapidly up through the Conservative Party ranks as a well connected and well regarded politician. The standing by him part is probably due to their having an 8 yo son at the time.

    • @stc40
      @stc40 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Best quote I heard about all this was from Christine Keeler... she said she was quitting politics because she had had a bellyful of the Tory Party...!!

  • @willhovell9019
    @willhovell9019 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A simple and effective process before voter suppression since 2010

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From nonentity to scandal and back!

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good grief, Profumo always was a nonentity.

    • @capt.bart.roberts4975
      @capt.bart.roberts4975 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And anyone who uses a forces commission honorific to their name is not trustworthy. My old man taught me that, still rings true.

  • @barbarapineda5730
    @barbarapineda5730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nothing wrong with changes.becuz... this long times polit... still chattering sames ol idea. And the brits, are.fed up. Hearing the ol out.date issue.

  • @barbarapineda5730
    @barbarapineda5730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They needs a new leaders, and they going.too 🗳. Is times for a new indivi... new ideal.

  • @steveparkes4365
    @steveparkes4365 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Always was always will be rigged. We should have voted the monster raving looney party in just once. Lol

    • @harsimaja9517
      @harsimaja9517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Rigged by Attlee while Churchill and most of the cabinet were Tories? How?

    • @andrewrobinson8305
      @andrewrobinson8305 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Evidence?

    • @graemebrown1191
      @graemebrown1191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😯 I forgot about them

    • @PeterFlanagan0987
      @PeterFlanagan0987 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah you’re just thick