I grew up just outside Liverpool, was a teenager in the early 80s, and was very much aware of the Derek Hatton phenomenon.
Lindsay's performance isn't Hatton though; Hatton was cold-blooded, a reptile. Like Murray, he didn't necessarily believe any of the Militant/Trot stuff; unlike Murray, he had no chinks in his armour. Murray was warmer and more human than Hatton.
The strange thing about Hatton is that he was simultaneously vilified and held up as a folk hero by the same people... one of the strangest political anti-heroes of our time.
Deggsy's in your game these days, anyway -- after a stint working in PR and on local radio, he's now chairman of a web design company in Liverpool. ;)
True Hatton story (I've heard it from a couple of sources, one of them a copper) from his PR days - he was in his posh office on Pembroke St when he got a phone call.
"You Derek Hatton?" "Yes" "That your Jag outside?" "Yes" "Watch." A masked man smashes the windows in with a sledgehammer. "That's for what you did to socialism in this city....."
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:23 pm (UTC)Lindsay's performance isn't Hatton though; Hatton was cold-blooded, a reptile. Like Murray, he didn't necessarily believe any of the Militant/Trot stuff; unlike Murray, he had no chinks in his armour. Murray was warmer and more human than Hatton.
The strange thing about Hatton is that he was simultaneously vilified and held up as a folk hero by the same people... one of the strangest political anti-heroes of our time.
Deggsy's in your game these days, anyway -- after a stint working in PR and on local radio, he's now chairman of a web design company in Liverpool. ;)
True Hatton story (I've heard it from a couple of sources, one of them a copper) from his PR days - he was in his posh office on Pembroke St when he got a phone call.
"You Derek Hatton?"
"Yes"
"That your Jag outside?"
"Yes"
"Watch."
A masked man smashes the windows in with a sledgehammer.
"That's for what you did to socialism in this city....."