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Post by gladstone on Apr 13, 2017 22:06:23 GMT
Another alternate history question for 1970 is what if the Liberals had been wiped out or just left with Jo Grimmond as their sole MP?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 13, 2017 22:08:24 GMT
Rinka lives.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 22:15:58 GMT
Another alternate history question for 1970 is what if the Liberals had been wiped out or just left with Jo Grimmond as their sole MP? The BBC notional results for 1970 indicated that Jeremy Thorpe would have lost North Devon had the 1974-1983 constituency boundaries then been in operation. |
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Post by Tom on Apr 14, 2017 17:51:30 GMT
I actually think the result of the 1970 election was one of the least consequential in the modern era. The 1970 Tory manifesto was quite free-market, but that strategy was swiftly abandoned. Under a Labour government Britain would still have entered Europe, inflation would still have been high and the unions would still have been rampant. Labour's failures would still have encouraged Tory thinkers to embrace monetarism, albeit a few years earlier.
Perhaps the following election would have been narrowly won by the Tories, but with a majority too small to take on the unions.
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