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Originally Posted by Osem
I don't think we should forget that New Labour are facing total meltdown under Brown at the next election. Under such circumstances getting shot of him sooner rather than later could appeal to a large number of his ministers and MPs if only as the least worst option. Cast your minds back to the days of Thatcher and Major - who really thought he'd win the 1992 election after the Tory party turned on her in 1990??
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In 92 Major was at the head of a government which was involved in a justifiable war against Iraq (bad man with beard and oil), and had a lot of support from the public, and the Heliograph.
As a voting nation, we appear to be conservative at heart (at least in England anyway), with the ethos that if you work hard you should be rewarded, and if you want a reward, you should work for it.
There was also the fear of Neil Kinnock being PM, something which probably accounts for such a high turn out and the Tories getting the largest number of votes for a single party in any GE.
While there was a recession, it appears the majority trusted the Tories more to get us through it than Labour, and evidently they were right.
NuLabour don't have that support, people don't trust them financially or politically.
While the Tories may have been busy screwing their secretaries, NuLabour have been busy screwing us, and I know which I'd prefer politicians to do!