#OTD 1983. Peter Tatchell loses the Bermondsey by-election for Labour on a 44% swing. Foot had initially distanced himself from Tatchell for his views on βextra-parliamentaryβ action. In a bitter campaign, the Simon Hughes campaign claimed the election βis a straight choiceβ mobile.twitter.com/labourβ¦
Jim Corr is laying into Roderick O'Gorman for posing for a photo with Peter Tatchell... someone's just dropped this as a response. pbs.twimg.com/media/EcPujβ¦
TIL outraged that President Mugabe was going to Brussels to conclude an aid and trade deal & no one was challenging him over his human rights abuses, Peter Tatchell attempted a citizen's arrest on him. Tatchell was badly beaten by bodyguards, but it helped make Mugabe an international pariah. reddit.com/r/todayilearneβ¦
TIL Peter Tatchell, a British gay rights activist, attempted a citizen's arrest on Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in 1999. Tatchell walked up to Mugabe's motorcade, grabbed the stunned dictator by the arm, and stated calmly, "President Mugabe, you are under arrest for torture." petertatchell.net/direct_β¦
Peter Tatchell: 'Not one left-wing or student banner at today's #RallyForAleppo in London. NUS & left silent re Assad & Putin crimes' twitter.com/petertatchellβ¦
TIL the largest UK by-election swing is the 44.2% swing from Labour to Liberal in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election. The Lab candidate was Peter Tatchell and the winner was Simon Hughes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/198β¦
Peter Tatchell: Some commentators have expressed more outrage over a hand wrongly placed on a woman's knee than about the mass sexual abuse of working-class girls in Rotherham & elsewhere. Both abusive but double standards & middle class bias. twitter.com/PeterTatchellβ¦
Peter Tatchell: 'Why has Jeremy Corbyn given knighthood to Lab MP who voted to KEEP Section 28 and AGAINST gay adoption & marriage equality?' twitter.com/petertatchellβ¦
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