From: Alan Cairns 

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:36:08 -0800, Randall Parker  wrote:


>I saw a chart in The Economist showing the list of national gov'ts that
>Labour has formed in the post WWII era. If those elections had been
>decided only by the vote of people in England then _half_ of those
>Labour P.M.s would have been sitting on the opposition benches instead.
>
>The point is that in close contests Scotland frequently has swung the
>results to the Labour side.
>
>
>
I think the Wilson Government had an English majority: at the time of the
election the conservatives were in a state of disarray and really
unelectable. Even Scotland couldn't save Britain form Thatcher. I believe
Blair has a majority in England, too.


Alan
alancairns{at}dccnet.com

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