Bigger Labour landslide in 1997

After digging around the Ipsos Mori archives, I saw that at times in 1995 and 1996 Labour had almost a 30 point advantage over the Conservatives? What if that kept up until an election?
 
The Conservatives lost not only Government but their double figure number of MP's lose official opposition. Not that opposition really matters any more, Blair can now use parliament as a rubber stamp and little more if he so chooses. In the decade or so to come Britain becomes a one party democracy which the Brownite's being seen as more of an opposition than the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats.
 
The Conservatives lost not only Government but their double figure number of MP's lose official opposition. Not that opposition really matters any more, Blair can now use parliament as a rubber stamp and little more if he so chooses. In the decade or so to come Britain becomes a one party democracy which the Brownite's being seen as more of an opposition than the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats.

Impossible.
 

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In the decade or so to come Britain becomes a one party democracy which the Brownite's being seen as more of an opposition than the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats.
That pretty much happened in OTL. I for one remain convinced Blair deliberately played up the Blair/Brown division in order to make the media focus on that court intrigue and act as though the only possible choices for PM were Blair or Brown, ignoring the opposition parties.
 
That pretty much happened in OTL. I for one remain convinced Blair deliberately played up the Blair/Brown division in order to make the media focus on that court intrigue and act as though the only possible choices for PM were Blair or Brown, ignoring the opposition parties.

Of course in this scenario it would probably still be going on today. The Brownites might have ditched Brown for someone more electable though, don't want the Tories or Lib Dems to go over the 200 mark and if the two camps could unite on something I guess it would be maintaining Labours unopposed dominance of British politics.
 
Bigger Landslide

Certainly possible to imagine a bigger Labour landslide in 1997. In 1995, the Conservatives polled 25% in the local elections against 47% for Labour and 23% for the Liberal Democrats.

Put those through the 1997 seats and you get 463 seats for Labour, 103 for the Conservatives and 63 for the Liberal Democrats.

I make that a 268-seat majority for Blair and a lot more Conservative losses though not Hague of course.
 
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