... which is probably the reason he lost out in the Conservative Leadership Contest during the mid 1960s - being deemed to pose too much of a "threat" to an increasingly stuffy Establishment with his "Rivers of Blood" speeches
- and we were landed with a limp-wristed Edward Heath ... who, according to my dad at the time, sounded more like a bleating
... yet went on to become the Prime Minister - whose BIGGEST mistake was to misguidedly take
into the European Common Market at the dawn of the following decade.
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