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muriel_volestrangler

(102,964 posts)
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 12:20 PM Nov 2019

"a rotten candidate for a rotten borough" - Blackadder's election episode [View all]

I happened to come across this today, and it seems highly topical:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5t001b

Not that "violent, bigoted old fool" MPs (or ones who want to make nanny proud) are around these days ...

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