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Thread #157929   Message #3731275
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
18-Aug-15 - 07:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: electing a new labour leader
Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
I wouldn't call MGM Lion isn't a particularly ridiculous pseudonym, but it is, for all that, a pseudonym.
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I wish people would stop talking about the Tory victory as if it had been an overwhelming landslide. They scraped a narrow majority by picking up seats made available by a LibDem collapse, which had been brought about by entangling them in a coalition.

The only part of the UK where there was a landskide was Scotland, where a party significantly to the left of the current Labour Party took nearly every seat.

In England, though Labour did badly, their actual vote rose rather more than the Tory vote did.