What’s the first political memory you have?

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Tony blair

That john major was going to be the new prime minister

Thatcher becoming PM...one day after my 10th birthday. Politics before that was a bit of a blur for me.

Margaret Thatcher becoming prime minister, I think I was 9/10.

The 1997 election

Tiananmen Square Massacre which was relatively closely followed by the fall of the Berlin wall.

President Kennedy getting assassinated. I was 8. Seeing the shock/horror on my parents faces at the news.

Watching the GE when Thatcher won.

Weirdly it was a music video of politicians wrestling - Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood 😄.

I think the first was the 1964 GE, I'd just started Primary school.

At age 4 I didn't understand what was going on but I remember the blue posters with a white cross and I think somebody explained the name Hiley across them was a candidate. Also remember the Labour chap knocking on our door and he'd been at school with my Mum.

1970 was the first one I understood what it was actually about and the names Wilson and Heath.

The general election of 1987. We were on holiday in Spain, and my parents were annoyed that they couldn't vote. (Only time my dad could get off work to go on holiday.) The person in the next-door holiday apartment to us shouted, "Nice one, Maggie!" Put my dad in a horrendous mood for the rest of the holiday. I was 8 at the time.

The poll tax

My dad saying “Maggie Thatcher Milk Snatcher” - when I was in the infants one of her policies was to stop free milk for school children, I hated the warm milk in the summer!

The time if the Three Day Week. 73? 74? I was born in 1967.

Falklands.

Also the Falklands, and thinking Michael Foot looked someone’s nice grandad. And my parents hating Thatcher.

My Granddad swearing at the TV every time Harold Wilson was on, or was even mentioned.

Maggie Thatcher announcing the Falkland islands invasion.

Meeting Thatcher before she was Prime Minister at a local event. She would have been Leader of the Conservatives and my parents were socialists and loathed her. I was only about 4. She was really intimidating and I cried which I assume bolstered my mum's opinion!

Thatcher resigning and John Major becoming pm. I genuinely hadn’t realised that men were allowed to be in charge.

Three day week in early 70s (scheduled power cuts) then Harold Wilson resigning...1976 I think (born in 1966)

Something called Marshall Law in Poland.

The power cuts of the 3 day week.

Jim Callaghan

The Iran-Contra affair

The power cuts in the early 70s. I remember being surprised the next winter when we didn't have them. Dad being home more due to 3? day week due to power shortages.

Mike Yarwood doing Harold Wilson and Ted Heath impressions.

The Falklands. I was at boarding school and rules on tv were relaxed so we could watch the news, there were military kids in the school.

The teachers rolling in the TV for our weekly tv show and the whole year booing when the TV came on as Maggie was talking on the news. I would have been 7/8yo.

My parents receiving a hand-written letter from Julian Amery (MP) in 1961 to congratulate them on the birth of my brother. I remember seeing the letter and wondering how a stranger in London knew about what had happened.