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In part two of our series on the history of DeadBrain, respected TV historian Professor Douglas Ramsbottom examines the rest of its political career.
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Following DeadBrain's dramatic protection of the Queen's life, the once respected website slipped back into political oblivion. Soon, not even The Sun would interview it and in October 1959 it lost its seat in the Commons.
Despite being offered a lucrative Hollywood film deal, for DeadBrain much of the 60s were spent out of the limelight. Little is known about the website's activities until June 1970, when it was appointed to the House of Lords after blackmailing various important civil servants. It has become a widely accepted belief that in the meantime the website temporarily moved to Bermuda to set up a motorway service station, despite the complete lack of evidence for this.
For the next twenty years DeadBrain initiated some of the best debates the Lords has ever seen, including such classics as "Does Ted Heath have silly hair?" and "Is Maggie Thatcher a turtle?" In 1990, though, DeadBrain once again took the centre of the political stage.
Margaret Thatcher had been running the country with debatable success for eleven and a half years when, in 1990, DeadBrain embarked on a drunken rampage with several Conservative MPs and an embarrassing haircut. Culminating in Mrs Thatcher's resignation and the loss of one of her handbags, this was widely condemned as "a bloody good night out".
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