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I'll watch, and I'll see another 1997. Don't you remember what the last days of the Major government felt like? It felt like this. I'm older than you (not by m
by flir 3y ago
I'll watch, and I'll see another 1997. Don't you remember what the last days of the Major government felt like? It felt like this.
I'm older than you (not by much) and my earliest political memory is of the 1979 election. Nobody aged under 60 is voting based on what happened in the 70s, and damn few people over 60. Maybe some are still using it as an excuse, but I think most of them have moved on to the Iraq War as their acceptable fig leaf.
By your logic (hordes of "Never Labour" voters still replaying the winter of discontent in their heads) 1997 couldn't have happened.
- benbojangles 3y agoDon't you remember what the last days of the Major government felt like? It felt like this. > I remember, and today is nothing close to what you are suggesting, the climate is incredibly different now. Nobody aged under 60 is voting based on what happened in the 70s, and damn few people over 60. > Sorry to tell you but they are voting based on Tony Blair & Gordon Browns tenure and that won't change for a generation. Never Labour. > Due to 1997-2010. 2005-2010 were the years that cut hardest. It's only 13 years ago and well within the feelings and memories of a very large amount of the population. Don't you recall the pound value crash 2008, poor benefits, forced unpaid labour, peak housing price inflation, mass unemployment.