Originally posted by AtW
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Our post war history shows that our governmental history is as follows:
1945 - 1951 Labour re-elected once.
1951 - 1964 Conservative re-elected twice.
1964 - 1970 Labour re-elected once.
1970 - 1974 Conservative did not get re-elected
1974 - 1974 Labour - I think this was their no overall majority period
1974 - 1979 Labour did not get re-elected
1979 - 1997 Conservative - re-elected 3 times
1997 - ? Labour - relected 2 (possibly more times, but I doubt it)
Now that I have looked all that I up, I realise that in their position they probably don't care. The ones in the inner circle have safe seats that they can occupy until retirement. The ones in the more marginal seats are not so important.
But if you have friends in government then that doesn't matter. Some of us remember watching Chris Patten on TV having orchestrating the Conservatives winning the 1992 election he lost his own seat in bath. He stood on the steps and cried.
And then he was appointed Governor of Hong Kong. Nice work if you can get it.
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