<p>What happens when a monkey gets elected mayor? Well, not really a monkey, but a monkey mascot for a town&rsquo;s football games. Tim Harford joins This Day in Esoteric Political History to discuss a weird moment from UK history in 2002, when the northeastern English town of Hartlepool was gearing up for a mayoral election and ended up voting in&hellip;the local football club&rsquo;s monkey mascot to run their government. They discuss how H&rsquo;Angus the Monkey got elected, and how the man inside the suit, Stuart Drummond, went on to be a very effective administrator.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

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