UK General Election 1974 - Results Round-up

[HelenusMaximusIII]

THIS IS BORING

[tdp1909]

40-41% of the overall vote? Tony Blair would have killed for that...

[Lab356]

Can never find the October '74 election , they always show the February one, but this one in many ways was far more important

[Feisty1967]

Always used to enjoy Robert McKenzie with his Swingometer.

[streetlegalone]

Jeeze, the production values and commentary were better in 1974 than this year' sBBC shambles with the patronising Dimblebore, flash graphics and cheap celebrity interviews!

[oxfordruse]

@streetlegalone Couldn't agree more. The 24/7 twitter-influenced 'snippet' style of today's broadcast journalism is pitiful. I was born a whole decade after this video, and I still think it's superior! The graphics are good enough, and more time is devoted to commentary --- from learned individuals (and not Joan fucking Collins, high on champagne on the BBC's £30,000 Thames election boat!).

[Feisty1967]

@oxfordruse Here here, I agree.

[UKSazzy67]

It's such an odd electorial system in this country which can result in the party which has polled the fewest votes can come into power because it has won the most number of seats. It is a totally unfair voting system and I feel that all my votes have been wasted because, Boston is a safe, Conservative seat and my vote will not do anything to change that. So what is the point in voting?

[Enerjee]

This is the second election in October of 1974 which was held because the previous one in February resulted in a "hung" Parliament.

This could happen again this year.

[xandy1959]

and did you know uk he was editor of the daily express

[ThePAULOPABLO]

Scary end music it sounds like amagedon.

[RichLN]

Blimey,there's none of this"we'll be back for breakfast" nonsense nowadays. It's hard slog dusk til dawn and beyond. 70s lightweights.

[gopconservative78]

I like his Spitting Image version of him

[UKSazzy67]

God! Sir Alastair Burnett worked for the BBC? How shocking!

[NickLotay]

@UKSazzy67

Yep, seems so wrong doesn't it! He left ITN for about four years - two of them spent at the BBC - but went back to ITN in 1976.

[Iamasupastar70]

@NickLotay My God! What was Sir Alastair Burnett thinking of? defecting to the BBC like that. Perhaps, they offfered him more money.