were just drunken lazybones, spending their days drinking and being bitter about the Duke of Windsor and Peter Townsend respectively.
turns out they got to declare a state of emergency and dissolve parliament. what fun!
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1974/feb/07/state-of-e…
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Bet the real reason was that there was rumoured to be a forthcoming shortage of gin.
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they'd not be wrong in that case
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The Dubonnet famine of 1974.
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Margaret! I'm getting word that the juniper harvest has failed!
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