I was born in 1970 and so the General Election that year was before my ninth birthday, halfway through junior school. I well remember Angela Rippon during my formative years!
The first time I saw her I said: "Wow, that lady looks just like a Siamese cat!" I thought I was mad until someone wrote to a newspaper: "The new BBC newscaster Angela Rippon looks just like an elegant Siamese cat!" Vindication. :)
This is from Thursday 29th March 1979. At least three missing children's programmes were shown on the BBC that day - Play School, five-minute Crackerjack spinoff Don and Pete, and Jackanory. Ragtime was on and of course most of that is missing. Newsround probably survives on the Blue Peter tape though.
I'm from the US, I don't understand, does Britain not have a parliament between April 7 and May 9? because over here, the old Congress stays in session until one day before the new Congress is sworn in
Parliament is dissolved, but the PM remains in place in case of an emergency. The election must be announced at least 21 days before it's held, so it's not very long before a new PM (or the existing one) is elected.
No, we do not have a sitting parliamemt at that time. As parliament is dissolved all MPs are, in a way, sacked and can not sit in parliament and from the moment of dissolution, unless they are re-elected, they can no longer call themselves an MP. Whilst the government stays 'in office' in case of a national emergency they can not pass any new legislation. This is where the powers of the Royal Perogative may become important which, although mainly enacted by the governement, are the powers held by the monarch and these do not need parliamentary aproval for use - only the monarch can refuse their use. Also should the sitting PM lose the election and has to resign between this and the appointment of a new PM we have no head of government so these powers, for those few minutes, revert to the monarch.
None of this dumbing down of the English language, such as using like in a non-simile context and calling people 'guys'. That annoys me, especially when addressing mixed company or women only!
the nd was really a nd which should have been ... and!! Oh, forgot to inform you that sue lawley was also from a council estate! so, you see, education WILL liberate the working classes, nothing else will. if you ever run out of arse paper, do what the labour parties all around the world do ... reach out and grab the first council estate dweller you can find. it is cheaper than buying loo paper in tesco, really, it is.
Well it might be best if you learned how to spell and punctuate properly. First of all, it's not ANgela rippon, but Angela Rippon. Secondly, in your second paragraph, first of all you need a capital letter for Angela and then it is council estate NOT council es tate and what nd represents, I have no idea.
