Something curiously absent from discussion of Marine v Tottenham is any reflection on the local giant-killing upset of the 1981 Crosby by-election, a dramatic win for the SDP in this safe Tory seat on the Mersey! 
The Conservatives won Crosby back in 1983, holding it through 1992, before New Labour took it 1997-2005, ahead of boundary changes.
Bill Boaks got 36 votes in Crosby, before setting a still extant record with 5 votes in Glasgow Hillhead on his next outing. The navy officer stood as the Democratic Monarchist Public Safety White Resident candidate.
The 'white resident' label was apparently a mixture of trolling the left and a tactical effort to get attention, and to misdirect far right voters, according to this wikipedia anecdote about him.
What are we missing - and I guess quite unlikely to find - is any Marine AFC/Shirley Williams anecdotes?
Amazingly, the pictures of the 1981 SDP by-election victory party are at Marine AFC
https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/1348326027064434690
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