YOUR SPANKING MP

In the early 1990's during an election many of the political hopefuls came down to Portobello road to shake hands with the plebs and kiss babies, standing for election that year we had a very varied and colourful lot, among them we had Cynthia Paine the famous brothel madame who was standing along with the 'Rainbow alliance' party, the Monster raving loony party and even Class war who were standing on a pro carnival platform, in the middle of all this and fighting for election was Conservative member Dudley Fishburne.

One day he came to Portobello road to try and drum up support and accordingly gave out leaflets and stickers to anyone who would take them, this included one young man who looked at the flyer handed to him and had a 'mini brain wave'. With just a couple of copies, a sharp knife, some paper glue and a photocopier he managed to change the wording from "vote Dudley Fishburne, your conservative MP" to "vote Dedly fishhead, your spanking MP". And armed with a few A4 photo copies he walked up Portobello road and sellotaped them next to other posters to amuse himself, he then went to the pub forgetting about them soon after.





A CLASS WAR DEMONSTRATION ON PORTOBELLO ROAD.



Shortly after the local press found out about the 'posters' and ran an article about them, when MR Fishburne found out he went completely la-la, it would be an understatement to say he was not amused. Dudley hit the roof and wanted to prosecute who ever had made the offending posters, knowing that Class war were also fielding a candidate he decided that it must of been them and acted accordingly, the innocent Class war denied it of course but Dudley didn't believe them and threatened them with all sorts of Tory thunder. But, in the end there was nothing he could do other than get the council to have them taken down.