On Sep 28, 3:38*am, "michael adams" wrote:

As is often the case after a Govt. has been in office for so long they often look
tired by comparison with a hungry opposition which also has never had the
opportunity to make mistakes. Or been subject to the vicissitudes of
"Events, dear boy events".

Your remark has merrit. Thirteen years was a long time. IIRC labor
made something of this at the time "Thirteen wasted years".

The point I was making was simply that none of this was directly attributable
to Harold MacMillan.

OTOH, turning the corrupt Marples loose on the UK’s transportation
system certainly was directly attributable to SuperMac. As was his
chancellor’s poor control of the money supply. And bating the
electorate was not an especially smart move. Although his statement
was correct. Most working class British Subjects were living life
styles undreamt of prior to WWII.

If anything caused the fall
of Macmillan as much as anything it was his being an easy target for
mimicry
starting with Peter Cook. More especially the humilation he suffered at
the hands of the arsehole Cook who directly insulted him from the satge
of "Beyond the Fringe".

Why would anybody with a shred of self respect want to pay to hear the
foul mouthed Cook? The BBC, and any other decent body that did so,
should be ashamed that they ever gave Cook a platform. If lowlifes
want to enjoy the right to free assembly and exchange their
distasteful verbiage, so be it. But, that venue was surely far below
endorsement by the presence Her Majesty's First Minister.