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Post by Pacifico on Jan 12, 2024 22:15:13 GMT
Er - the Tories won 3 consecutive GE's from 1951 and had 4 GE wins from 1979 What did they win them all by a Marjoriety. Don't think so go back again and read what I wrote. you have to gain a majority to win an election.. |
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Post by Totheleft on Jan 13, 2024 0:29:24 GMT
What did they win them all by a Marjoriety. Don't think so go back again and read what I wrote. you have to gain a majority to win an election.. OK I change that to a large Marjority . I'm sure you know what I ment without you being perdamtic. |
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Post by Vinny on Feb 2, 2024 22:09:19 GMT
Labour won in 1997, and 2001 because of John Major's era of Tory rule being so shit.
They were sleazy, they signed the Maastricht Treaty, they presided over Black Wednesday gave us VAT on fuel and stopped listening to ordinary voters.
Labour learned the wrong lessons, the Maastricht rebellion was right. Blair thought Europhilia was "cool", but from 2001 to 2017 Labour lost seats in every General Election contested.
Labour didn't learn why.
And despite gaining seats, against the odds and the polls, they retreated back to their Europhile comfort zone and lost in 2019.
You would have them make the same mistakes.
The Labour Party need to be a left wing party and the Tories a RIGHT wing party.
Everyone trying to be Blair? It's a recipe for blandness and political decay. Democracy requires CHOICE.
It requires the public to be the masters of their own fate and the politicians, the servants of the people.
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Post by johnofgwent on Feb 10, 2024 19:29:12 GMT
The 2005 general election saw labour’s 20,000 majority from the days when they were the party of the genuine, and WORKING ‘working class’ in Newport’s steelworks constituency, to barely more than a thousand votes. Admittedly their rival was a fucking lib dem, but any port in a storm when a hypocritical shite needs a kicking.
It is indeed the case that one needs a little perspective
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