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Originally Posted by jfman
Read something the other day that put this into perspective:
We are still within the “5 year term” of David Cameron’s 2015 Government.
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And extraordinary times they have been ... yet we still have a Tory government and one with a bigger majority than Cameron had in 2015.
In fact, things really don’t tend to change dramatically. Even the 1997 Labour landslide occurred after 18 years of Tory government, and Tony Blair’s major success was putting a fresh face on continuity. The Tories looked worn out, and out of ideas. Blair looked young and energetic but none of his new ideas actually changed very much; not in the first term anyway.
British electoral history since WW2 suggests a majority the size Boris has now can be reduced by an effective Labour campaign in 2024 but Starmer has next to no chance of actually winning it.