The Murder of Mr Perceval

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He was an extraordinary divisive character.	:00:11.	:02:17.
This was the era of the rotten borough. Parliamentary seats were	:02:18.	:02:30.
often in the gift of. Spencer was the son of an Earl. A natural social	:02:31.	:02:35.
Conservative, he had no time for workers' rights. He forced tough new	:02:36.	:02:40.
legislation through Parliament. To be convicted of machine breaking now	:02:41.	:02:46.
was to be sentenced to death. You were either for Spencer Perceval	:02:47.	:02:49.
over the smashing machines or you were against him. He was an	:02:50.	:02:54.
extraordinary divisive character. I think that is really, when one's	:02:55.	:02:59.
looking at his achievements, they were considerable, I think his	:03:00.	:03:02.
divisiveness is the thing to hold on to. Nowadays, he might be called a	:03:03.	:03:09.
conviction politician. His religious believes led him to oppose slavery	:03:10.	:03:14.
and Catholic emancipation and to keep at great expense a British	:03:15.	:03:28.
force in Portugal when nap owl Portugal.	:03:29.	:03:32.

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