[PDF file]: […] EU in practice are dismal. This has actually swayed voters in various parts of the EU to reject steps for ever greater unity and integration and to vote for a narrow nationalistic set of parties to represent their interests. Economic growth has been limp in comparison with other parts of the globe. More of […]
[PDF file]: […] was the result of the SDP’s formation: they received 25% of the votes cast, most of which came from people who were previously Labour voters. The Conservative vote stayed much as it had been in 1979. There was a ‘Falklands bounce’ for the The Gow memorandum of 12/8/82 can be read at or . […]
[PDF file]: […] he got a fellow Catholic, Steve Webb (Lib Dem), as Pensions Minister during the Coalition. In 2013 Mr Webb boldly announced that the Good Lord himself would vote Lib Dem,9 although as it turned out practically no other bugger would. He was supported in this extravagant claim by the party president at the time, […]
[PDF file]: […] And he quotes a Tory MP complaining ‘of people going through the division lobbies reeking of booze She added that she has seen colleagues miss votes or vote the wrong way because of alcohol’. The situation today, however, is far better than it used to be, but even so he has seen ‘Older male […]
[…] do. The formation of the SDP ensured that Mrs Thatcher won the 1983 election: forming a new centre-left party in 1981 was bound to split the anti-Conservative vote at the general election which followed. The question is: was it formed with that purpose in mind? On this the evidence is mixed. Three of the […]
[…] And he quotes a Tory MP complaining ‘of people going through the division lobbies reeking of booze She added that she has seen colleagues miss votes or vote the wrong way because of alcohol’. The situation today, however, is far better than it used to be, but even so he has seen ‘Older male […]
[PDF file]: […] experience on her part, Mattinson lacks a certain perspective while making many of her otherwise correct points. The role of the SDP in disastrously splitting the anti-Conservative vote in 1983 and 1987 is not mentioned at all; nor are the very real difficulties for any major political party, led by even the most gifted […]
[PDF file]: […] David Lloyd-George).2 Government policy then was to intervene and regulate wherever needed to ensure the highest standards of living for 1 A mass electorate, where one person=one vote, only emerged in the UK in 1918, later than in many other countries. The Liberal Party split of 1931 produced a two party system that lasted […]
[…] The Realist and Steamshovel. The lobby On 29 October, the day that the general election was announced, the Spectator ran a piece by a Stephen Daisley, ‘A vote for Labour is a vote for 20 Valentine’s book on this subject is reviewed in Lobster 73 at . 21 22 See . 23 At or […]
