There was that moment during the 1970's when Labour near overtook both the Liberals and the Tories, remember.ASB; next you'll be saying that there'll be a way to get the Democrats in the States to win more than one term in office - the last to do that was Davis in 1924 & 1928!
There was that moment during the 1970's when Labour near overtook both the Liberals and the Tories, remember.
If only that Corbyn chap didn't try to shoot Thorpe.
He would have been dead in two yearsTo think we could have had LotO or even PM Ray Gunter...
He would have been dead in two years
Though heavens knows what he could have done in those two years![]()
The 80's were weird.Maybe preventing the Labour Party becoming Robert Silk's vanity project...
The 80's were weird.
Looking at the electoral history of Labour, two leaders stand out quite interestingly- Ellen Wilkinson (1946-1947) and her successor Jim Griffiths (1947-1957); had she lived to 1950, or if Griffiths was able to swing those seven seats in the infamous tri-parted Parliament, then the Lib-Lab Coalition could have had Labour as the senior partner and spring-boarded to success instead of slumping into their quiet decline.
They had 80+ seats in which they were the main opposition and could have won with a nudge, but as 1950 shows us, even with that nudge they would have still been second place, and achieving all 80+ is Mythic Moths.If you want to go waaaay back, it's Greenwood - he had the style and substance in the 30s and had done a heroic job as Deputy PM in the war, but his drinking exploded during the war (understandable). Labour almost won in 1945 despite everything, so either you need Greenwood to be sobered up pre-war (or at least it's something he can control until after the election) or he's convinced to step down sooner, not leaving Bevan to try and sort everything out at the last minute.