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Exeter International Airport, Exeter, England

On his way to catch his plane for Belfast, the Home Secretary bumped into some journalists waiting for the very same plane. Given that the flight was delayed, the politician had no real opportunity to dodge them and the option of sulking in a corner of the waiting room was not statesmanlike.

Reporter: Mr. Fitzpatrick! What do you have to say about the recent comments made by Opposition Leader Roland Carpenter?

Fitzpatrick: Wait, you mean that Mr. Carpenter has actually awoke from the deep slumber he has been for the past five years?

Reporter: Jokes aside, do you have any comments about his accusations of weak leadership?

Fitzpatrick: "Let me tell you one thing. When Roland Carpenter speaks of weak leadership, he speaks with experience. He is the man behind the historic fumble in Cyprus. He has been such a weak leader that the Labour Party of today is not any different than five years ago when they totally ruined our economy. The fact is that the former PM Mr. Monaghan has been more active in the House of Commons that Mr. Carpenter and that the Labour Party has shown complete and total intellectual bankruptcy since the departure of Lord Blackfriar's to the Lords.

In the meantime, Talfryn Ryley has shown definite and proven leadership. He took the hard decisions and together with Clarence Abel, he brought our economy back on its feet, which lead to a reduction in unemployment, a reduction of inflation, a reduction of the deficit and more robust economic growth. What did we hear from the Labour benches? Guilt-induced silence and the usual arguments of their union masters.

Weak leadership, that's a fine resume of Roland Carpenter's career. He's a weak leader, with weak policies and a fear of losing control of his party either to Monaghan or to J.C. Kirk. Britain deserves better and Britain will chose Talfryn Ryley's Conservatives, I have no doubt of that.

Now gentlemen, I have a plane to catch. If you are looking for Mr. Carpenter, I believe that Gate 6 is the flight for Dublin."
 
Not at Gate 6,

Reporter: Mr. Carpenter, you have recently been accused by the Home Secretary of being a weak leader, something you have made a habit of accusing the Prime Minister of being. The Home Secretary has suggested that you are afraid of losing control to Monaghan or J.C. Kirk. Is this true?

Carpenter: Certainly not. Alistair Monaghan and I have been friends for many years. While I have debates with him in private, and him with me, we have both been nothing but loyal to each other. J.C. Kirk is a fine MP, and is an up and coming member of the party. He has a bright future ahead of him, and I look forward to working with him once we win this election.

Neither of these two men have ever shown the slightest hint of disloyalty, and we work together to figure out what to do, then stick together as we do it. My frontbench has never question my loyalty, and no prominent MP has ever called for Labour members to not vote for me. The same can not be said for the Prime Minister, and his party. Many will point out my lack of clear pushes or statements during my time in Parliament, threw the years, but the simple fact is I have simply been a good foot solder, something the Tories seem to lack these days.
 
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Hornesby speaks at a Conservative town hall in Birmingham on his campaign across Britain.

Greetings all who have come!

Now I'm sure you've heard of the recent accusations from Labour that we are too radical. I find that hard to take from a party that not only attempted to destroy the private sector but also caused such economic turmoil that we are still feeling it even today as things start to get better. I will tell you right now that the Labour Party has not changed from the days of Monaghan. How is it supposed to when his hand-picked successor is currently leading it? The one thing that does seem to have improved is that Labourites no longer sound like communists - but that's about it! They still promote the same old failed policies that have damaged our economy and failed the British people. We cannot allow them to get back in and reverse the recovery that we have been making so far! We cannot trust Labour with the reins of government again when they would use it to negotiate with terrorists and open us up to blackmail from our enemies far and wide. Labour simply cannot be trusted to handle government any better than they did under Monaghan. How can you have confidence in them when their leader refuses to tell us how Labour would have responded to the problems that have been facing our nation over the past five years? I'll tell you right now that you can't and that is why you should support the Conservative Party.

Over these past five years that Conservative Party has been busy working to fix the economic mess left by Labour. Inflation is now on the decline. Unemployment is now on the decline. Factories are opening up across Britain. The budget has been balanced. These are the economic accomplishments of Ryley's government. What Labour offers is to spend, spend, spend without doing enough to pay for it. They would have our deficit balloon once again with their reckless disregard for fiscal responsibility. That is something that neither you nor I can afford to see happen. In Northern Ireland we have committed ourselves to de-escalating the situation and attempting to heal the wounds between the Catholic and Protestant communities. Meanwhile, Labour has criticized our handling of the Northern Ireland situation as weak when one of their most prominent MPs and Shadow Secretary of State for Employment, Productivity and Labour, Mr. Epping , said that "Mister Ryley’s decision not to commit British troops to Northern Ireland is the best course of action." Now isn't that something? Labour agrees with what we have done yet thinks they can criticize us for doing exactly what they would have done. I think they cannot. If you disagree with our handling of Northern Ireland, then Labour is not the party for you. No, I think you should look at our economic achievements and compare them to Labour's. I'm certain you will see which party has worked to fix the problems facing Britain and done so successfully rather than making new problems for us to face. So I ask each and every one of you to vote for the Conservative Party on Election Day and allow us to continue to repair Britain's economic woes and return prosperity to all Britons.

~ Arthur Hornesby, Conservative Candidate for Hertford & Stevenage, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade
 
A dark, smoked-filled room somewhere in Oxford. April 1974.


‘Intellectually bankrupt? Intellectually bankrupt?!—’

‘Take no notice, Tony. It's just the leaders of the Smarmy Army rallying the troops.’

‘Yes, well… It's still bloody annoying. There are pot shots and then there are plain untruths.’

‘You're not wrong. We'll just have prove him wrong beyond after the election.’

‘I'll hold you to that.’​
 
The following poster appears in Con-Lab marginal seats across Britain, particularly those in which a similar poster was put up by Labour, as well as in Hertford & Stevenage.

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Somewhere in the South of England...

Reporter #1: Mrs. Browne! Mrs. Browne! Your party has been accused of weakening British unionism with the Liberal policy of local government reform and such.What is your response to those allegations?

Browne: Really, I don't know just where they're getting these accusations from...

For starters, local government reform in no way has attempted to divide our communities, but rather forge a stronger bond between our community and our government. By transforming our government to make it simpler, more efficient, we can bridge the divide that we have seen all across the United Kingdom, not exploit it. Secondly, our party absolutely does not endorse actions or policies that would increase sectionalist tension within our nation. The Liberal party, first and foremost, serves the United Kingdom, and we will work to maintain that fact.

Reporter #2: So, what about your bills for reform in Cornwall, which have come under fire recently with comparison to the crisis in Northern Ireland?

Browne: Well, what they're doing is like comparing apples and oranges, really. I know my home region, and it just shows how out of touch some of these people really are when they compare Cornwall of all places to Northern Ireland. First of all, there is absolutely no sectionalism crisis in the region of Cornwall on the scale of the one in Northern Ireland. Politicians act as if simple reforming of local government is the same as promoting regionalist devolution, or outright separation from the United Kingdom when it is clearly not. It just goes to show how politicians today have such a hard time separating one case from a completely different one. Furthermore, in the case of an actual regionalist crisis, such as Northern Ireland, the Liberal and Alliance parties have promoted a policy aimed to keep Northern Ireland inside the United Kingdom and a plan reduce tensions between our divided populace there. As a sensible policy in between the pro-IRA Labour agenda and the militaristic Tory agenda, we Liberals hope to once again guide Britain away from radical policies and towards a responsible, moderate, common-sense government. I hope that answered your questions, gentlemen....

Reporter #2: Yes, very much so. Thank you!

Browne exits the crowd of reporters to continue her busy campaign.

Reporter #1 (whispering away from mic): How do you think she was so prepared for our questions?

Reporter #2 (whispering away from mic): I don't know, it's like she knew they were coming. Kind of spooky, if you ask me...
 
Hyde Park, London.

In the aftermath of the abortive assassination on Thomas Saxon, the Conservative Monday Club had organised a dinner of its members to raise funds for the Royal Ulster Constabulary. At Saxon's instigation, this had soon escalated into a public event, called the 'Rally Against Rebellion'. The genteel Monday Club members were slightly out of their element here, but Saxon had convinced them that if they wanted to win the hearts and minds of the British punter, they had to hit them where they live.

Unlike most demonstrations in Speaker's Corner, this was heavily policed. The Met weren't prepared to risk another attack on a sitting MP. Before his own appearance, Saxon had been preceded by various celebrities of the nationalist right. Even Enoch Powell had been invited. Finally, near the end of the day, Saxon himself mounted the rostrum, separated from the crowds by a thicket of uniform police and flanked by various Monday Club doyens.

He turned to address the crowd…


People of Great Britain!

I speak to you today in the birthplace of British democracy. It was here that working British people, fed up of being ignored by an unfeeling elite, came together to demand that their rights be respected. They fought for freedom, and they prevailed. It is fitting, then, that we should gather here today, as was it only a few days ago that British democracy was brutally assaulted.

An attempt was made on my life. Fortunately, it failed, but not before maiming three innocents in the process. But my life is not important. What is important is the right of our elected representatives to speak their mind freely and to stand up for the British interest without fear of bloody reprisal. That right has been jeopardised by the so-called Irish Republican Army. These social fascists have set themselves to terrorising the whole of Ulster. Now they have even spread their mayhem into the mainland. How many more bombs and bullets must we endure? How many more British citizens must die - in Ulster or elsewhere - before we realise that enough is enough?

Well, I'll tell you how many: none! No more! Not another drop of British blood! It's time to stand in solidarity with our brothers in Ulster. It's time to rally against rebellion and treason. While the Labour Party and the Liberals would prefer to wallow in self-denial and paint the terrorists as reasonable partners for peace, only the Conservative Party has the brains to see them for what they are - murderers to a man - and the guts to confront them.

Even so, you know that I have been disappointed by our failure - and yes, it was a failure - to do more to destroy this menace. I have said as much in the Commons. Unlike the spineless cravens of the Opposition, who obediently toe the line of their defeatist Marxist leadership, I do not lie to myself and my constituents just to save face for the Party. But my counsel has not fallen on deaf ears. I am pleased to announce that the Prime Minister himself has told me of his intention to restore the Royal Ulster Constabulary [cheers], to place it under the authority of Stormont [more cheers], and to at along last deploy British troops [even greater cheers] within Northern Ireland to fend off terrorist attacks.

Who rules Britain? It is her Parliament, and the people who elect it? [cheers] Or is the terrorists and their socialist allies? [jeers] That is what is at stake in this election. The economy can recover. Inflation can be tamed. The damage of socialisation can be undone. But our nation cannot be repaired if it is torn apart. Ulster must be defended. Britain must be united. Only the Conservatives offer the leadership to do so.

So when you go to the ballot box, you place your tick beside Tory blue! Because if Craven Carpenter or Yellow Browne manage to crawl their way into power, you can say goodbye to this country. If you don’t want Britain to go the way of the Empire, vote Conservative! Vote for the Union!​


Tom Saxon​
 
Lorcan Callaghan appeared alongside SDLP candidate for Londonderry, Hugh Logue, at a pub in Derry.

I am happy to be here with you brave and hardworking Irishmen with my colleague Hugh Logue, your SDLP candidate for Londonderry, which we really need to get around to changing the name of that don't you agree. Anyway, as you all know much of our troubles are centered here in this fair city of Derry. Now, we all here know that we must work towards ending the domination of the Protestants and unionists in our fair Six Counties. I am working everyday over in London to help effect the changes necessary to improve our nation and by sending Hugh to London, we can fight even harder. We all know about the RUC and the various loyalist paramilitaries attacking our people and attacking people peacefully protesting. We must enact meaningful police reform and completely overhaul the entire devolution scheme that has existed in the Six Counties since the partition of Ireland. And so far the UUP under Mr. Fitzpatrick have presented us with countless little pieces of reform in an attempt to pacify you and so that we will somehow bow to Protestant domination and austerity. Well, at least some of these piecemeal measures were meaningful and the Tory government at least did not send in the military to establish anew an English occupation of Ireland as many of their savage MP's such as Mr. Powell have demanded. I, in Parliament, told the Prime Minister that any attempt to establish an English military occupation in the Six Counties, there will never be peace. You brave men in Derry and in Belfast and in every place where proud republicans live would never surrender. Despite this, I have heard that an English Tory, one of those savage militarists who want to see Derry bathed in blood, has said that the Prime Minister has promised to send English soldiers into the Six Counties. If you want peace to reign over our God-given land and for someday to have Protestants and Catholics live together in peace and understanding as I do, you cannot support the Ulster Unionist Party. The SDLP is the only party in Northern Ireland that is willing to fight alongside good Englishmen in achieving peace. So go out and help us campaign across Londonderry and especially in this city so that we can finally have peace in our land.

This is of course not even speaking of the failures of Tory austerity. The leader of the UUP has not only misled the public about taxation when he went all over the Six Counties extolling the virtues of low taxation and upon entering government raising taxes. I'm not opposed to tax raises from the usual Tory levels of irresponsible tax cuts and burdening of the working class, but when a government raises taxes those new revenue streams should go into government services like the NHS, unemployment benefits, subsidies to ailing businesses, nationalization of key industries, and supporting the economy. In contrast, the current government has raised taxes and slashed government spending across the spectrum. I am not opposed to deficit reduction, but I will fight against Tory deficit reduction with all of my heart as they will reduce our deficit by bleeding our nation dry. The Leader of the UUP said during this campaign that ships can be built in other countries cheaper and that we should embrace this so-called modern economic situation. It is quite strange for a unionist to be celebrating the shipping of good Irish jobs overseas. Well, the SDLP does not think that ships should be built in other countries, we in parliament are going to work to improve the shipbuilding industry here in the Six Counties and we are going to negotiate better deals with Europe and the rest of the world so that we can firmly establish the dominance of our manufactured goods. We are firmly committed to the unions here in the Six Counties, to our NHS, and to the economic fortunes of the Irish working class here in Northern Ireland. So go to your Protestant and unionist friends and tell them, we may disagree about which country our Six Counties should be a part of but the Tories over in England are stealing our jobs and bleeding us dry to help the bankers in London. Tell your unionist working class brothers that the only party that fights for the economic rights of working people in the Six Counties is the SDLP, join with us and we'll rebuild the economic fortunes of our Six Counties and bring peace. Vote SDLP for a socialist alternative for Derry!
 
Southwest England Speaking Tour
Bath​

"What is a recovery? Is it simply a bold self-righteous claim? Is it an attack on success? No, it is neither of these things, for this government has succeeded beyond common expectations, and this success is measured not in terms of our rhetoric, but in terms of our factual achievements.

"We have revitalized the private sector, lowered inflation, and now, as you can see by the new businesses popping up, finally brought a greater economic position to this region. We have built a Britain better not only for those co-conspirators in Labour's radical and unrealistic agenda, nor those allies of the Liberal pleas for greater electoral gains at the expense of policy, but instead for all common working Britons.

"This is a country built on the backs of great men and women, and I believe that there are many here among us who are those great people. Now, what we must do, we must, is continue the path we have chosen in this decade. Now it is our opportunity to reject the opposition to this nation's very fabric which the Liberals and Labour have embraced through their acceptance of Irish nationalism. Now it is time to finish what we have began, and to make Britain something much more than anyone could ever have imagined it could be when Mr. Carpenter was just Monaghan's lackey."
 
During the campaign, Scarlet Browne joined Jo Grimond and the rest of the Liberal frontbench on their campaign bus traveling through Sumwhere England.

Grimond: What a lovely town. Scarlet, just look at all bright happy faces!

Browne: Yes, they look like very nice people. So, Jo, I'm sure you've looked at what the newspapers are predicting, yes?

Grimond: Aye, hung parliament all 'round. Bright news on the horizon, it seems.

Browne: Indeed. I've spent a fair amount of time on the campaign trail so far.

Grimond: Excellent, excellent.

Browne: In fact some of the candidates are starting to think I'm the leader of the Liberal Party...

Grimond: Yes, go-, say that again?

Browne: I don't remember exactly, but my aide told me that one of the Tories or so put me in the same boat as Carpenter.

Grimond: Damn, have they really gotten tha' slow? I mean, I'm on the Liberal frontbench everyday. I'm the father of this party's revival. I had a whole movement named after me! How could they possibly forget that I'm the party leader?

Browne: I really have no clue...

Grimond: Well, at this rate I'm going to fall out of the public's mind soon. Make sure the next poster we put up will do something to jog their memory, will ya?

Browne: Of course, sir.

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And so Liberal candidates across Britain received the special support of a piece of paper:

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Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Ulster Unionist Party Rally

Londonderry was a city to be approached very delicately in these times. Quite effectively cut in half by the river Foyle, the inhabitants on both sides had little interaction, given the IRA's chokehold and repression over the Bogside. However, the city itself was a symbol, and as many symbols, acted as a magnet for politicians of all stripes, desirous to usurp some of its striking imagery.

The Ulster Unionist campaign was in full swing to retain the seat, which could very well slip through their grasp for the first time in decades. While bolstered by the contained approached and the restraint showed by the Ryley Government in refusing to deploy troops on a large-scale, the chances at the poll for the UUP where dragged down by the emergence of the PUP, which threatened their right flank.

William Ross, the sitting MP and candidate, was in the political battle of his life and was supported by all the political clout of the Home Secretary, Lochlan G. Fitzpatrick, whose very dominion over the Ulster's affairs was at stake in this election.

"My good friends of Londonderry!

I stand with you today, during an election campaign which holds tremendous importance for the future of this fair city and of Northern Ireland. For many years now, the upheavals and violence cause by the IRA has separated this city in two and led to bloodshed and murder.

Our government has been patient. We have carefully avoided to antagonize our Catholic brothers, by thoughtful reform and by ensuring that our police forces could not be construed as a propaganda prop for the terrorists. The echoes we now have from these occupied enclaves are ones of sorrows. The population, which has long diverged from the IRA, is quite simply at their mercy and under their brutal occupation.

It is our government's intent to put forward very robust anti-terrorism legislation and to put together dedicated units for counter-terrorism purpose. Let me be very clear, we will fight against terrorism tooth and nail. Our resolve is not aimed at our Catholic brothers, whose desire for reform has been hijacked by radical and violent elements bent on separating this fair province from the our brothers in England, Wales and Scotland.

The Ulster Unionist Party has always defended you. We have worked on your behalf in Westminster and with your trust, we will gladly continue to do so. The alternatives are simply unworkable.

On the one side, you have those like Lorcan Callaghan and his SDLP cronies, licking the boots of the Labour Party who is led by the softest man ever to hold office, Roland Carpenter. Mind you that Mr. Carpenter's solution is to negotiate away Northern Ireland with the IRA and Dublin. But he's a unionist he will tell you. Quite the hogwash indeed.

On the other side, there are those who believe that, to this terrorist insurgency, we must add an element of religious divide. I will tell you, I quite frankly find this use of our religion to be quite improper. I hold too much respect toward our Holy Mother Church to dangle it in front of voters.

The choice is clear. On Election Day, vote for a more SAFE, SECURE and PROSPEROUS Northern Ireland. Vote for Bill Ross and for the Ulster Unionist Party. We will keep the union safe, we will make this town whole again!

Thank you!"
 
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