SamuelRSmith said:
It was pre-WW2 that the Liberal party were very popular. WW2 changed people's perceptions, however. It pulled people together, and it built up greater sense of community, and people started voting more left-wing, and so Labour become a whole load more powerful. The problem was, that although Labour are an economically left-wing party, they're also more authoritarian than the other mainstream parties out there, and so the Government started to play more of a role in people's lives, as trashleg put it (though I'm not 100% agreeing with this, myself). |
thats the impression i get of Labour aswel, lol, although they even gave up the ecenomic stuff under blair!
