Two British views of the British General Election
Nick Cohen fears that Labour could be heading for a massive defeat in a few months’ time – see this blog posting. He could be right.
But try this for an alternative scenario: the Conservatives win the largest number of seats but no overall majority, go to the polls again in May 2011, and a rejuvenated Labour Party under a new leader is returned to office.
Two General Elections in a year? It happened in February and October 1974 when I was a Parliamentary candidate for Labour on both occasions.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
There were two general elections in a year exactly a century ago, too!
Also see What did a constituency election campaign cost in 1910?