A fun little game

[Filuwaúrdjan]

All you have to do (and please, do not cheat) is guess the year in which the following speech was made in the House of Lords:

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Some clues, because I'm nice.

1. The speaker is clearly male.
2. The peer's name is in purple: this means that I have clicked on the name of the speaker before. I have a professional interest in the history of planning, housing and local government issues in Great Britain.
3. The peer has a rather distinctive manner of speaking.

You might be able to work out from the above who the peer is or might be from this, which would at least give you a range of years. Or not.

[omar04]

Sometime in the late 20th century? The speech sounds to be about that time but before water privatization.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh yes, the last reservoir to be built in England is Carsington Water in the middle of Derbyshire (which is not in Southern England). Planning started in the late 60s, construction in 1979 and it was opened in 1992. The building of it took a lot longer than it was supposed to as there was a dam collapse during construction in 1984.

[Meclazine for Israel]

1927.

[Estrella]

I’ll bet on clue no. 2 and guess it’s a 70s/80s speech by one of those hilariously corrupt Macmillan-era ministers. Either Keith Joseph, who had this ‘shut up and do what I say’ approach to local government, at least going by what Jay Foreman says about him, or the dude who had his own asphalt company build motorways (opens google) Ernest Marples.

[omar04]

Oh yes, the last reservoir to be built in England is Carsington Water in the middle of Derbyshire (which is not in Southern England). Planning started in the late 60s, construction in 1979 and it was opened in 1992. The building of it took a lot longer than it was supposed to as there was a dam collapse during construction in 1984.

I'll guess 1990 or 1991. I'm likely reading too much into this as you said he had a distinctive speaking style but something about how he said it sounds really recent to me.

[Silent Hunter]

I'm guessing 1976 for the year - we had a very hot summer with major water shortage issues, followed by a lot of heavy rain.

[dead0man]

love the game, but I haven't the slightest idea.  But I love to guess....<dead0's thought process>you're asking the question, so it's probably an extreme year (or what the OP thinks is an extreme year, what I think of as an "extreme year" are probably two very different things (the OP's being more accurate)), but he's a smart fellow trying to have fun with a smart a group of people (or rather a group of people who contain some smart people), so maybe it's more a "random" year...ugg, the information other posters are theorizing is mostly jibber jabber to me, so that's no help.  The language seems as normal as English English ever does, so it's certainly not more than 150 years old or so..or not, how the hell would I know?  So I'll just fill in a gap in the already guessed guesses...we have the early 90s by omar, 70s/80s by Estrella, 1927 by Mec...oh, I just had an idea, maybe OP thinks it's interesting because this guy was complaining about the the freaking reservoir's during The Blitz or some other "Much Bigger Deal".  Got it.</dead0's insane head>


Sep 13, 2001

[Steve from Lambeth]

c. 1946

[Progressive Pessimist]

1984.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

1963

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1922 because that was an interesting year in British politics.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I’ll bet on clue no. 2 and guess it’s a 70s/80s speech by one of those hilariously corrupt Macmillan-era ministers. Either Keith Joseph, who had this ‘shut up and do what I say’ approach to local government, at least going by what Jay Foreman says about him, or the dude who had his own asphalt company build motorways (opens google) Ernest Marples.

oh look a fellow Citation Needed Unfinished London fan (maybe?)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

or the dude who had his own asphalt company build motorways (opens google) Ernest Marples.

Who then lived a perfectly normal retirement where he was elevated to a peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud.