High Wycombe Mayor

High Wycombe Mayor

A tradition of High Wycombe in the United Kingdom, involves its Mayor being weighed annually in public on a specially erected scale, and their weight compared with the previous year. If it has increased, it means they have been indulging in too much good living at taxpayers' expense, and the crowd jeers and boos.

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