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Old 17-02-2009, 12:07   #47
Bernard Dawson
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Re: Redundancy good for the soul

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
...and yet the good people of Hyndburn kept returning him, right up until 1992.

I'm afraid you've just got to accept that it was your good old salt of the Earth working classes who supported Maggie by the millions.

The number of Tory grandees didn't increase. It was the hoards of traditional Labour supporters who bought into the dream of owning their own house, having shares, which ironically they already owned because they were nationalised industries, and wanted to 'better' their own lives.
Garinda Ken Hargreaves only won once after 1983, and that was in 1987. And that's only because the Labour Party handed Ken the seat on a plate.

When we got the right candidate, we won back the seat in 1992
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