People said that in 1992, too. The talk about this election is almost a perfect mirror of what was being said then: there was going to be a hung parliament, or Labour would get a working but not overall majority. Instead we got five more years of a broken Tory party.
I think people my age - old enough to remember the Thatcher years - won't easily go back to the Tories. But there are a lot of people voting today who don't have those memories. My hope is that enough of those young voters will care about things like green issues, Iraq, the bankers and the various political scandals to risk voting Liberal. But those are exactly the people the polls tend to miss.
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People said that in 1992, too. The talk about this election is almost a perfect mirror of what was being said then: there was going to be a hung parliament, or Labour would get a working but not overall majority. Instead we got five more years of a broken Tory party.
I think people my age - old enough to remember the Thatcher years - won't easily go back to the Tories. But there are a lot of people voting today who don't have those memories. My hope is that enough of those young voters will care about things like green issues, Iraq, the bankers and the various political scandals to risk voting Liberal. But those are exactly the people the polls tend to miss.