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Is there anything the opposition can do and what can we do other than try and help the people in need in our local communities?
1983, Thatcher had a majority with 362 seats, the Poll-Tax in her manifesto and a mandate from the country to deliver it. She won again in 1987, and brought the poll-tax into operation in 1989, the poll-tax riots were a feature of 1990, and Thatcher was challenged by Heseltine and resigned shortly afterwards, with John Major taking over.
I think the lesson is that rioting works, or at least has done in the past.
Dammit
Something I’ve been mulling over, there’s never been a landslide majority government during my adult life when I was engaged with politics and don’t have any experience of it... Are we fully at the mercy of Boris and the Tory government for the next 5 years? Is there anything the opposition can do and what can we do other than try and help the people in need in our local communities?