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Peter_Carter
I don't know if you were around in the early -80's?
http://lightrefrain.net/historicalvoting/
Labour was significantly ahed in the polls,
Thatcher & Howe had seemingly for no reason raised VAT from 8 to 15%,
and it was the post-Falklands war fever,
and those splitters of the SDP that gave the Tories a majority,
despite their votes falling by 700,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1983
Can't rule out itchy trigger fingered Callmedave starting another war,
nor, the Continuity Blairties splitting.
Wouldn't all those 'shy Tories' like their back-at-home kids to be able to afford to rent or buy an affordable house?