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this could turn out to be an interesting thread, paul has mentioned his memorable ones, would be interesting to read who others were fascinated by.
michael heseltine was mentioned, going back approx 20 years i was knocking around with the vice chair of ilford south blues, being a fairly marginal constituency big wigs used to visit on the rubber chicken circuit. for those not aware of that phrase it is about blue dos where the food is chicken leg, one roast and one scoop of mash and two veg followed by tinned fruit cocktail and libbys milk.
i digress, mr heseltine was due down and i was really looking forward to his after bad dinner oratory.
i have seen more life in a tramps vest, he was awful then tried to woo back the audience by appealing to the racist element, despite their being more than 20 prominent asian businessmen in the room.
at that time ilford south and north were both blue, a wimp called neil thorne, represented me and a bloke called vivian bendall had the north seat.
having seen the bar prices i decided that as soon as the sweet went down i would sprint to the bar in order to beat the rush.
when i got there and ordered i turned around and everyone was still sat down refusing to part with any money.
eventually mr bendall arrived pulled out his purse extracted 10 pence and ordered a tonic water whilst looking over his shoulder
to make sure that no-one would arrive and force him to buy them a drink.
in the interests of political balance i must add that tom king and douglas hurd were class acts when they appeared although the audience did not seem to warm to either.
tom king was the defence minister at a time we were at war with someone or other, the fans seemed to want something gung ho and he delivered a measured rational speech.
