| abstract | - Parliamentary Reform in Britain is a subject that has long exited students of history. These are the dates to remember:1832, 1867, 1884, 1918, 1929 and 1969. That equals 9470 years of extra homework to remember when knowing this will get the job currently occupied by David Cameron. As you can see the electorate went from a few rich men to granting the vote to some hippies in 1969 when everyone over the age of 18 had the right to mark their preference. If you were 18 and a hippie in 1832..then you had a long wait but that is how British history works. Nothing much has happened since Henry VIII or Oliver Cromwell that saw kings and queens losing their heads. Reform began because many people wanted it to or thought they did. It ended on a similar basis. Asked about Parliamentary Reform, a British historian with the name of Mr Python said, “I have no idea why it happened at all! This country was great until that bloody lot of foreigners, commoners and Simon-Schama-loving nancy-boys got the vote!”. Mr [sic] Schama himself [sic] says, “Look, we’re queer and we’re here, so get used to it”
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