Election 1992 - Part 3

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  • From Manchester pre emptive celebrating with jugglers, clowns and facepainting.

    Man, we need to celebrate - get the jugglers in!!!

  • 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.

  • George Alagiah looks so young here.

  • @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.

  • 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.

  • Also, the Tories in 2010 don't have Neil 'Well All Right!' Kinnock to bugger things up quite so spectacularly at the last minute.

  • 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.

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