when the whole Tory vote shifted massively down and then up because of the post-war landslide, each Tory victory and each Tory defeat was won or lost on a lower vote than previousOf course these figures cannot be projected mechanically into future. With large oil revenues to offset the economic decline, has a relatively favourable situation. Fluctuations within the general decline can always occur. But Thatcher has not, and will not, succeed in reversing the general downward One of the most intelligent comments on the future of the Tories was me shy that peep ople read:
that (read: canitaist class should have no illu If Thatcher won the election this time she could not win the one after. If Labour's polities continued, outcome might be the most left wing Labour government in history.
Jenkins' conclusion was that the Fought shift allegiance to the SDP/Liberal The highpoint of votes for 'third'