BBC Rewind: Give a dog a vote?
In Forres, in the Scottish constituency of Moray, a West Highland terrier called Hamish received a polling card while its owner did not. A trip to the polling station led to election officials disenfranchising the dog by deciding that neither was entitled to vote.
Clip taken from BBC News, first broadcast 9 June 1983
17 Nov 2014
- From the section UK Politics