Friday, January 07, 2022

When my dad was on the news

 My father John Mitchard was a Labour politician - went up through the league of Labour youth and into adult life. He used to go to the Party conference which usually was Blackpool or similar. One conference famous fascist Colin Jordan burst in and started heckling. According to my Dad no one was doing anything to stop him so he walked to the end of the row and put his arm behind his back and took him to the exit - kicked the door open and pushed him out into the street. It was the main item on the news that day. We didn't have a phone at the time but the next door's phone was red hot as his family were asking 'was that our John?'. Fortunately we found this photo online. I think it was about 1965. My Dad is on the left. He was too!