In this election Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Party threatens to make a similar fuss.
This week Sir Menzies surprised colleagues by revealing that the party had begun work on its negotiating strategy in case the election went that way.
Is this why Sir Albert Bore, the Labour leader of Birmingham City Council warns that we are facing "the end of local government as we know it"?
Earlier this month Sir Christopher - a retired High Court judge - ruled the footage should be seen by family lawyers to allow them to make submissions about why the material should be part of the evidence.
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It was perhaps this side of Sir James that came out in his political foray.
As of this writing, Sir Mix-a-Lot has not responded on his own Twitter account.
She is among five other artists selected this year: Sir Paul McCartney, Merle Haggard, choreographer and dancer Bill T.
Earlier this week, Sir Bruce told the BBC he would now trust his own baby to be treated at the unit.
Also this month, Sir Richard Wilson succeeded Sir Robin Butler as cabinet secretary and head of the civil service Britain's top mandarin.
Appearing before MPs earlier this month, Sir Jeremy said there were "some inaccuracies and inconsistencies" in different accounts of the altercation.
Nobody knows this better than Sir Gordon Wu, the founder of Hopewell Holdings, one of the region's biggest power and road-building firms.
It comes after the appointment earlier this month of Sir David Walker, a vocal critic of the remuneration of investment bankers, as chairman.
Against this background, Sir Ken's successor as DPP took the unprecedented step of publishing his reasons for not prosecuting Mr and Mrs James.
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Earlier this week, Sir Stelios reduced his stake in Easyjet and threatened to sell more of his shares if the firm placed an order for more planes.
Earlier this week, Sir Alistair Graham, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, warned that public trust in the government had not recovered since the Iraq war.
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In a speech earlier this week, Sir James Munby, President of the High Court's Family Division, said the family justice system was "undergoing the most radical reforms in a lifetime".
But it was during this period that Sir Jimmy allegedly sexually abused teenage girls, five of whom made their claims public during an ITV documentary that aired on 3 October 2012.
On his 64th birthday this Sunday, Sir Paul will be in the middle of a messy divorce to model Heather Mills, and with the prospect of a very expensive settlement hanging over his head.
But, at a lecture at the LSE earlier this week, Sir Malcolm Rifkind argued that it was "overwhelmingly in Britain's interest to remain a full participant in the biggest single market in the world, with the ability to shape the rules".
Money has also been donated to countries around the region to help the ongoing development of the game and this has made Sir Allen something of a Caribbean icon and the loss of that money now could be dangerously detrimental to the immediate and future well-being of West Indies cricket.
In the run up to this week's local elections, Sir David Frost was joined this morning by the Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith and the Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy.
This is an approach that Sir Christopher Kelly, in his independent report on parliamentary expenses due this year, could usefully endorse.
In this work you see Sir Anthony inching back towards the representation of things once more.
"Roy is one of the best managers around, " said 20-year-old Smalling, who will join Manchester United this summer after impressing Sir Alex Ferguson.
Some who lived then have said this happened, and Sir Donald's beatification as an inspirational force in time of trouble has been much paraded since his death this week.
"Sir, this is a really bad idea, " said Whittaker.
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This means, says Sir Philip, that as of the middle of next year - and possibly earlier - RBS will be in a fit enough state for the government to start selling its huge stake, to begin the process of privatisation (see him saying this here on the RBS website).
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