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Originally Posted by ArchAngel
Yes! give teens the vote, I doubt the tories would ever get back in  |
Doesn't look like they will anyway,they haven't been anywhere near an overall majority in 4 elections now.
Also for around the last 25 years they haven't looked like getting more than 37% in general elections either.
Despite the issues now of UKIP and the SNP in Scotland with their increases of votes, I think some great change did come about in 1997 when Tony Blair walked in with a landslide, which was again repeated in 2001.
That was, that Labour became the natural party of govt. and that it is hard to beat them.
As was shown in 2010, despite a discredited leader for labour,a disaster of an election campaign and after the near 3 years of chaos that had occurred too, the trust for the Conservatives did not return and they were left without a confident 'yes' to govern from the electorate.
No overall majority and well short too by 19 seats.
Even now, the Conservatives have to be around 6% ahead of Labour to just probably get the barest of overall majorities.
Whereas Labour could possibly get one being neck and neck or 1 or 2 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives.
With the massive anti Conservative vote across the parties at present,it would be a massive backwards miracle for the Conservatives to get in outright again now.