On 7 May, 10:28, "Tim Fenton" wrote:
"Recliner" wrote in message

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My feeling is that Dave and his jolly good chums are set to visit on
us the same horrors that Thatcher did, having learned nothing from
the post 1979 record. They won't be the ones that have to go without.

They enjoyed 18 years of power after 1979, so maybe their post-179 record
wasn't so unpopular after all.

So a decade of three million plus unemployed is OK, then?

What the Tories did manage was to demonstrate that, with the UK's electoral
system, you can get a landslide victory with only 30% of the electorate
making a positive choice for your party. This was also discovered by Labour,
whose positive choice percentage in 2005 was even less.

It'll probably be three decades if you add in Incapacity Benefit.

After 11 years in power Labour appears to have noticed the problem.