[…] do. The formation of the SDP ensured that Mrs Thatcher won the 1983 election: forming a new centre-left party in 1981 was bound to split the anti-Conservative vote at the general election which followed. The question is: was it formed with that purpose in mind? On this the evidence is mixed. Three of the […]
[PDF file]: […] And he quotes a Tory MP complaining ‘of people going through the division lobbies reeking of booze She added that she has seen colleagues miss votes or vote the wrong way because of alcohol’. The situation today, however, is far better than it used to be, but even so he has seen ‘Older male […]
[…] And he quotes a Tory MP complaining ‘of people going through the division lobbies reeking of booze She added that she has seen colleagues miss votes or vote the wrong way because of alcohol’. The situation today, however, is far better than it used to be, but even so he has seen ‘Older male […]
[PDF file]: […] experience on her part, Mattinson lacks a certain perspective while making many of her otherwise correct points. The role of the SDP in disastrously splitting the anti-Conservative vote in 1983 and 1987 is not mentioned at all; nor are the very real difficulties for any major political party, led by even the most gifted […]
[…] in history’. 11 of the SDP’s formation: they received 25% of the votes cast, most of which came from people who were previously Labour voters. The Conservative vote stayed much as it had been in 1979. There was a ‘Falklands bounce’ for the Conservatives in the 1983 election but recent analysis suggests that this […]
[PDF file]: […] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]
[…] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]
[…] was the result of the SDP’s formation: they received 25% of the votes cast, most of which came from people who were previously Labour voters. The Conservative vote stayed much as it had been in 1979. There was a ‘Falklands bounce’ for the Conservatives in the 1983 election but recent analysis suggests that this […]
[PDF file]: […] issues, that two Republicans actually voted against her. For the first time in the history of the US Senate, the Vice President had to use his casting vote to carry an appointment to the Cabinet. Pence is also close to her brother, Erik Prince – the founder of the notorious Blackwater mercenary company – […]
[PDF file]: […] again in November 1964.6 On p. 70 of his book (see footnote 2) Mr Margolick records how, as Eisenhower’s VicePresident, Richard Nixon had also courted the black vote in the 1950s, manoeuvres which included joining the NAACP and making ostentatious fact-finding visits to Africa. Dr King, watching Nixon’s careful repositioning, presciently observed: 6 Continues […]
