Nicholas Fairbairn - now there's a blast from the past!!! lol!!! Staunch defender of Mrs T from north of the border. Use to wear striking trousers i think.
The difference of course is that Major was defending a majority of 102 in 1992 and an 11% lead in the share of the vote, whereas the equivalent figures for Brown in 2010 are a majority of 48 (after boundary changes) and only a 3% lead.
So if Brown does as well as Major did in 1992 - losing about 40 seats - he'd probably find it difficult to hold onto power, even though that would be a pretty good result for him.
From Manchester pre emptive celebrating with jugglers, clowns and facepainting.
Man, we need to celebrate - get the jugglers in!!!
mrbeancounter90 10 months ago
The swingometer is back, hooray! They should have had it in 1983 and 1987.
It showed the 8% swing Labour needed to get into power - a huge insurmountable mountain. In 2010 the Tories needed a 7% swing.
swanarcadian 1 year ago 2
George Alagiah looks so young here.
LKayL1 1 year ago
@ajs41 Also, Labour's vote looks likely to collapse at this election in favour of the Lib Dems. The Tory vote held fairly strongly in 1992.
Matt7895 1 year ago
Nicholas Fairbairn - now there's a blast from the past!!! lol!!! Staunch defender of Mrs T from north of the border. Use to wear striking trousers i think.
chrishoy77 1 year ago
Also, the Tories in 2010 don't have Neil 'Well All Right!' Kinnock to bugger things up quite so spectacularly at the last minute.
RichLN 2 years ago
The difference of course is that Major was defending a majority of 102 in 1992 and an 11% lead in the share of the vote, whereas the equivalent figures for Brown in 2010 are a majority of 48 (after boundary changes) and only a 3% lead.
So if Brown does as well as Major did in 1992 - losing about 40 seats - he'd probably find it difficult to hold onto power, even though that would be a pretty good result for him.
ajs41 2 years ago