The Hillhead By-Election

[@aarondavis8943]

We are the biggest nerds.

[@That_Random_Bloke]

And we shall inherit the earth Sir

[@applemask]

Why'd they give a by-election a real ale logo?

[@JasonC1782]

And a theme tune taken from some obscure cop show?

[@waltertaylor44]

I'd give it a try 😂

[@johnking5174]

It was cheap, whatever ITN had on their library of music cues and graphics.

[@eilidhmm]

I'm pretty sure Mr David Wiseman's "minder" in that piece at 18:05 is... Donald Dewar?

[@DBIVUK]

It was - usual arrangement being to have a neighbouring constituency MP do this job. Dewar also had the recent experience of winning a tough fought Glasgow byelection in Garscadden in 1978.

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

Weird how deluded they were about forming a government.

[@JonniePolyester]

This has to be the funkiest by-election program ever!

[@HeroesNights]

I half expected Isaac Hayes to jump in and sing about Jenkins

[@NotThatHunter]

a week later Argentinian troops landed on the Falkland Islands, and the rest is history...

[@DanNguyen-uq2kp]

Great stuff! Do you have video coverage of the Eastleigh by-election in 1994 by the way?

[@DBIVUK]

Sadly not.

[@graemejardin5569]

It was the year of John Paul II's visit to the the UK and someone went up to Jenkins and asked if he would vote to keep the Pope out. Woy couldn't understand the Glaswegian accent, thought the question was about pork and answered Yes, he would, if the pork was diseased...

[@FranzBieberkopf]

Roy Jenkins-the only thing he ever fought for was a corner table at Le Gavroche.

[@KevinBradshaw1972]

Gerry Malone, Tory candidate at Hillhead, lost Winchester in 1997 by 2 votes, contested the result and was hammered later that year.

[@markgaughran4374]

Interesting choice of music to open. Reminds me of a comedy cop show

[@darren2514fv]

Do you have the ITN/Granada coverage of the Warrington By-Election

[@szde]

The Falklands War started a week later. A week is a long time etc etc

[@briandelaney9710]

Woy!

[@UncleBooBoo]

Robert MacLennan at 1:18:00

[@CarlosBacardi]

He was my MP as a child (I’m from Caithness).

[@wilsonfisk6626]

David Owen was so arrogant. 55:43 Decades later, he would do a 360 and become pro-Brexit..

[@vincentsmit1935]

I'd laugh at Benn-y hill too

[@wilsonfisk6626]

​@vincentsmit1935 Yeah Benn was totally wrong there. I'm saying this as a Benn fan.

[@BossySwan]

Joy Renkins

[@stephenholmes1036]

Coy Woy

[@kailashpatel1706]

The SDP defection was far more damaging to Labour than anything Tony Benn's challenge to the 1981 Deputy leadership..

[@zeddeka]

There's quite a lot of evidence that the SDP actually saved Labour from an even worse defeat in 1983. The siphoned off a lot of votes that would otherwise have gone to the Conservatives.

[@baltasarnoreno5973]

Tony Benn and his usual combination of perceptive observations and total bollocks.

[@Dbdbe1]

Tony Benn is coming out with tremendous drivel here.

[@BossySwan]

As per

[@stephenholmes1036]

He was a huge hypocrite gave up his title but put his money and property into trust

[@jamesgill8854]

Much like Ted Cruz and Jacob Rees-Mogg today, Mr Benn was a purveyor of eloquent rubbish in the 1980s.

[@markbailey1970]

@@stephenholmes1036what are you talking about?

[@MrAJR76]

@@markbailey1970 You realise Benn inherited the title of Viscount Stansgate when his father died, yes? He had to renounce this peerage in order to remain in the House of Commons. Whether he put his wealth & property into trust, I don't know.