[jaysay]

When I first started in politics public meetings was the norm, they seem to have wayned in later years because of wall to wall media coverage, but in the sixties the three main parties Tory Labour and Liberal all had a rally at the Accy Town Hall or Occasionally Ossy Town Hall, think the first meeting I went to was an open air meeting on Accy Market fronted by Harry Hynd the sitting Labour MP who was introducing Arthur Davidson, great fun and very entertaining, the repartee was great