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Originally Posted by Xaccers
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!
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True, but things didn't look quite that good for the Tories in 1990 when Thatcher was dumped and Major took control. Many within New Labour will be hoping the same can apply to them if they ditch Brown now and can restore some semblance of credibility over the next 2 years with a new leader. Let's not forget that, even now, Cameron's Tories are hardly all the people's favourites.....