Attlee Landslide... 60 years ago today

[minionofmidas]

Can't help the privy part...

Outside toilets are being demolished at quite a rate these days.

Maybe it could have a privy for its private office? That way, it still wouldn't be a privy, but at least it would be in a privy.

[Emsworth]

Can't help the privy part...

Outside toilets are being demolished at quite a rate these days.

Maybe it could have a privy for its private office? That way, it still wouldn't be a privy, but at least it would be in a privy.

Or we could just get around the whole problem if we used the correct full title: Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal

[minionofmidas]

...And then we appoint him a lord and force him to keep a seal in his privy.

[Rural Radical]

With Regard to The Farm Labourers vote. It never went away its just that less people are employed on farms now. The descendents of those voters now work in factories and other industries in the east of England

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Where were the Liberal seats ?

From memory... Anglesey, Merionth, Cardigan, Montgomery, Pembroke, Carmathen, North Dorset, North Cumberland, a seat in the East Riding of Yorkshire the name of which I've forgotton... and I can't remember the others.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Thinking about it Pembroke might have been National Liberal. Remembered another Liberal seat; Eye

[minionofmidas]

Thinking about it Pembroke might have been National Liberal. Remembered another Liberal seat; Eye

Cool name. Where was Eye?
I seem to recall that Labour managed to lose two seats in the 45 landslide - Mile End to the Commies, one Welsh seat (Carmarthen maybe?) to the Liberals.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Cool name. Where was Eye?

Suffolk; a small village in Suffolk to be precise. For some reason it gave it's name to a big rural seat in the NE of the county (most of it, but not Eye itself, is in Suffolk Coastal now).

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Yep. Carmarthen's been something of an anti-bellwether for Labour for quite a while... a couple of candidates elected as leftwing independents in by-elections during WW2 but standing as Labour candidates in the general election also lost, although (somewhat improbably) the one elected for Derbyshire West didn't...

[Peter]

Emsworth: sadly Alan Johnson thought that Productivity, Energy and Industry sounded bloody stupid so he got it changed back to DTI

Yes, if I recall correctly, it was just a week or so after the name change first took place. I would have to agree that "Productivity, Energy and Industry" doesn't sound too great, though. It doesn't even mention "Trade"!

Surely you know why?

Productivity, ENergy and Industry Secretary