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The trouble with political jokes is that too many of them get elected. Here are some that did and some that didn't - and some that didn't need to, as they sat in the world's most eccentric legislative chamber, the House of Lords.
Colourful eccentrics, like John Wilkes, established our basic liberties. Curbing the arbitrary power claimed by George III, he combined politics, obscenity and debauchery in the Hellfire Club.
Others are amusing relics like Col. Sibthorp, the most reactionary MP ever - who successfully opposed the granting of 50,000 pounds a year to Prince Albert because he hated foreigners. Then there's Col. A. D. Wintle's 1945 manifesto where he declared 'Guy Fawkes was the last man to enter Parliament with good intentions. You need another like me to carry on his good work'. Also included are the 4th Earl Russell who told the Lords in 1978 that Jimmy Carter and Mr. Brezhnev were the same person and called for the police and the army to be abolished, and A. P. Herbert, the only MP who specialised in making speeches in verse. He even corresponded with the Inland Revenue in rhyming couplets.
These, and many other eccentrics portrayed in this hilarious book illustrate why Britain is the world's leading political asylum.
Colourful eccentrics, like John Wilkes, established our basic liberties. Curbing the arbitrary power claimed by George III, he combined politics, obscenity and debauchery in the Hellfire Club.
Others are amusing relics like Col. Sibthorp, the most reactionary MP ever - who successfully opposed the granting of 50,000 pounds a year to Prince Albert because he hated foreigners. Then there's Col. A. D. Wintle's 1945 manifesto where he declared 'Guy Fawkes was the last man to enter Parliament with good intentions. You need another like me to carry on his good work'. Also included are the 4th Earl Russell who told the Lords in 1978 that Jimmy Carter and Mr. Brezhnev were the same person and called for the police and the army to be abolished, and A. P. Herbert, the only MP who specialised in making speeches in verse. He even corresponded with the Inland Revenue in rhyming couplets.
These, and many other eccentrics portrayed in this hilarious book illustrate why Britain is the world's leading political asylum.
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Descrizione libro Hard Back. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 268 Pages. Black boards with gold spine-lettering. Illustrated with an eight page center section of photographs. The trouble with political jokes is that too many of them get elected. Here are some that did and some that didn't - and some that didn't need to, as they sat in the world's most eccentric legislative chamber, the House of Lords. Colourful eccentrics, like John Wilkes, established our basic liberties. Curbing the arbitrary power claimed by George III, he combined politics, obscenity and debauchery in the Hellfire Club. Outlawed and expelled from the Commons three times, when told he would die either on the gallows or of the pox he replied, that depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress. Others are amusing relics like Col. Sibthorp, the most reactionary MP ever - who successfully opposed the granting of £50,000 a year to Prince Albert because he hated foreigners. Then there's Col. A D Wintle's 1945 manifesto where he declared Guy Fawkes was the last man to enter Parliament with good intentions. You need another like me to carryon his good work. Also included are the 4th Earl Russell who told the Lords in 1978 that Jimmy Carter and Mr Brezhnev were the same person and called for the police and the army to be abolished, and A P Herbert, the only MP who specialised in making speeches in verse. He even corresponded with the Inland Revenue in rhyming couplets. Perhaps the most eccentric MP of all was Trebitsch Lincoln. Born into a Jewish family in Hungary in 1879, he became a fraudster, before emigrating to Britain to establish himself first as an Anglican curate, and then as a Liberal MP in 1910 for ten months. He went on to flee the country to become a German revolutionary and a secret agent, before leading a Chinese cult as a Buddhist abbot. Finally, after offering his services to the Japanese and then Nazi Germany, he died in Shanghai, possibly poisoned by Nazi agents. Contents: Introduction, Eccentricities of Parliament, Anthony Henley, 1st Marchioness of Salisbury, John Wilkes and Sir Francis Dashwood, Charles James Fox, Lord George Gordon, Bob Mackreth, John Mytton, Sir William Paxton, Sir Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Horatio Bottomley, 12th Duke of Bedford, Lord William Cecil, Lord Hugh Cecil Baron Quickswood, Trebitsch Lincoln, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, Captain Archibald Ramsay, A. P. Herbert, Sir Hugh Rankin, Earl Winterton, Lt. Col. Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport, Lord Paget of Northampton QC, Lt. Col. A. D. Wintle, Lt. Cdr. Bill Boaks DSC, Dame Irene Ward, David James, 4th Lord Avebury, George Brown, John 4th Earl Russell, Wogan Phillips 2nd Baron Milford, Screaming Lord Sutch, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, Roy Jenkins, David Icke, and Latter-Day Political Eccentrics. Codice articolo 15974
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