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UndercoverElephant
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Lord Beria3 wrote:
extractorfan wrote:We'll never know for sure but it seems highly likely that labour would have got in to power in 97 regardless of turning into conservatives. People were at the end of their tether(sp) (teather??)

Although I remember being in a job, unskilled, at a rate of £5.50 per hour at the time. That was a bloody good hourly rate for the time, a time when there was no legal minimum wage.
Really! How do you explain Majors victory in 1992 against a relatively moderate Kinnock?
Kinnock blew any chance of winning that election when he did this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKXlvYMKQc

It was actually all wrong. A lot of waverers thought at that moment: "Hmmm. Maybe not."
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
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As we already have another thread re this, I will lock this one.
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=22881
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