The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 30, 2020 12:07:12 GMT
Well they would certainly have tried all that (and it might have been enough to stop Labour winning outright at least) but fewer might have been willing to listen with the now widely toxic Thatcher still in place. And the countervailing and simple "time for a change" appeal would surely have been highly powerful. IMO something like the 2010 result (but with Labour in the driving seat) would have been highly possible. And after that, who knows.....? But then Labour still run into problems in the hung parliament? Buffeted by the press Entirely plausible, as I implied a wide variety of outcomes were possible. There is also the small matter of the ERM to consider - though I don't necessarily hold the view a Labour (led) government would have been humiliatingly ejected in the same way the Tories actually were; the greater goodwill the EU would have held towards the new regime might have enabled a much softer "realignment". |
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nodealbrexiteer
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Aug 30, 2020 18:25:44 GMT
But then Labour still run into problems in the hung parliament? Buffeted by the press Entirely plausible, as I implied a wide variety of outcomes were possible. There is also the small matter of the ERM to consider - though I don't necessarily hold the view a Labour (led) government would have been humiliatingly ejected in the same way the Tories actually were; the greater goodwill the EU would have held towards the new regime might have enabled a much softer "realignment". I still wonder though if many Laburites(and others) think 1992 was a good election lose(PS like the unrepentant Milibite line  ). I still think it could have been a shortlived Lab government that could have been scarred even more than the Winter of Discontent one. |
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