SciFiBoy said:
SamuelRSmith said:
SciFiBoy said:
hmm, before WW2, i dont know about that
im 20, i hope very much to be part of the generation that overhauls politics, lol, dont know how easy it will be, but thats why im applying to do a politics course in september, my ultimate aim is to get a degree in it. 
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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).
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thats the impression i get of Labour aswel, lol, although they even gave up the ecenomic stuff under blair!
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Well, they had to, else they would suffer the same fate as the Liberal party.
The fact of the matter is, the Labour party does better off of the working class. Since 1950, the working class has halved in proportion (it used to make up 2/3s of the electorate, now it only makes up 1/3). Labour didn't always win elections when the working class was so large, they would have no chance now under the old Labour, as much as it pains me to say it.
There's a reason why Margaret Thatcher lasted so long, and why Major kept on Conservative rule until the Blair reforms, and that reason is that Old Labour became weak, and they were unwanted by the electorate.
