Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Memories of 1992

Today's must read article is surely in the Independent.

According to Dominic Lawson,The Conservatives should be praying to lose this election.

He harks back to 1992,an election that Neil Kinnock seemingly had in the bag only for votes to literally cahnge their mind as they entered the ballot box.What happened next

Within months of the Conservatives' improbable victory in the midst of a recession, the pound sterling had been vomited out by the European Union's Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM); and since our membership of this club had been hailed by Mr Major as the sole guarantor of our economic health and future prosperity, his party's reputation for competence was shredded beyond repair.


Is 2010 going to be the same? Will the Tories simply inherit an economic mess that they are going to be unable to sort out

Most likely, enough voters will be so desperate to see the back of Gordon Brown – the width and depth of the popular dislike of the Prime Minister inspires pollsters with awe – that David Cameron and George Osborne will get their chance to try to sort out the mess

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