What the Conservatives used to say about jobs and the Single Market
The Conservatives used to campaign about how dangerous Labour hostility to the Single Market was for British jobs. Used to. … Read the full post »
Read about the 1992 general election, won by John Major and extending the Conservative Party’s winning streak to four general elections in a row.
The Conservatives used to campaign about how dangerous Labour hostility to the Single Market was for British jobs. Used to. … Read the full post »
The 1992 British general election is firmly lodged in the political opinion polling hall of shame alongside 1970 and 2015. … Read the full post »
Election night, 1992. BBC TV studios. Ken Livingstone is asked why Labour lost to the incumbent Conservative government, despite the big economic recession. … Read the full post »
Press stunts, leader’s speeches, target mail, glossy leaflets, email messages, social media adverts and more were all applied to the great task of resurrecting the ghost of 1992. … Read the full post »
Labour’s defeat in the 1992 election had a lot to do with the way Conservatives adverts, especially the ‘Tax Bombshell’, attacked Labour’s economic policies. … Read the full post »
Unpopular government seeks fourth general election victory in a row in midst of a recession. Sound familiar? Welcome to 1992. … Read the full post »
The BBC had been pressing for political broadcasts to be used during the 1950 election, but initially met hostility from politicians. The very first political broadcast, either PEB or PPB, was eventually seen on 15 October 1951. … Read the full post »
The 1992 general election was a bad one for the British political polling industry as the result was very different from what the final polls predicted. … Read the full post »