A Discussion on Travellers and Social Security on ITN Lunchtime News, 1992

With apologies to Robin Carmody, who asked to see this again ages ago and I only just remembered, here's that discussion on the ITN Lunchtime News on dirty hippies claiming benefits. Our players are: Richard Richard-baiting newslady Fiona Armstrong, our moderator; none-more-Tory stationary-haired pepperpot Nicholas Scott MP, minister at the DSS; and colossal advocate for communal living, Sid Rawle, who's not on his best form here to be honest.
Both Scott and Rawle are no longer with us; the latter outlived the former by over five years. Scott's main role at Social Security was actually as an unofficial "Minister for the Disabled". His main achievement in this role was to successfully filibuster a bill that would have outlawed discrimination on the grounds of disability. Good going there. Shortly afterwards he was reshuffled out in favour of hairless fascist William Hague (who was probably worse), but as a consolation prize he was knighted. His career ended ignominiously; he was deselected for the 1997 election - at which in all likelihood he'd have been one of the few Tories to win, since he was fighting Kensington and Chelsea - after being found face down in a gutter. Turns out he was an alcoholic.
As for Sid Rawle, the "King of the Hippies" - a title of which he wasn't fond, but accepted sufficiently to use for his autobiography - UA-cam doesn't permit the space to detail everything he did, but he looms large in the history of the British radical left, in every sense. He did not get a knighthood.
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This was more like 1985-86.

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When in 1992 was this shown?

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August 6th.