- Registrado
- 7 de Ago, 2018
There are a couple of factors to be had though not present in our current situation:
1. Labor and the unions had fucked shit up HUGELY in the years leading up to Thatcher taking over. Beyond anything Obama, Clinton, and Carter had done leading up to the elections of Trump, Bush, and Reagan as a response.
Unions were drunk with power and basically so fucking corrupt, that a lot of people were happy to see Thatcher nuke them from orbit due to the British unions truly forgetting their place.
And Labor were the biggest fucking feckless cunts around in the mid-late 70s, especially dealing with the unions and their own lunatic fringe. Especially since Foot (author of said "suicide note") was one of the freaking "sane" ones compared to Militant. Militant was a full on communist group who spent YEARS slowly taking over Labor starting on the local level (because they were all a bunch of unemployable parasites who, like today's SJW death kult, used the fact that they didn't work and contribute to society to harass and infiltrate and dominate everything on the left because no one with a job and family or life, had the free time to do what they were doing.
2. The Labor version of the Blue Dogs finally told Labor to fuck off that election year, forming their own party (which helped keep Labor in the wilderness for a further period since they lost the center-right vote)
3. Thatcher waging the war in the Faukland (Trump hasn't done that.... yet)
4. Foot himself basically getting the nomination because he was at the end of his career and that his "suicide note" was allowed because his allies screeched that Foot was going to retire anyway if he loses and that the party platform the "suicide note" promoted was everything he believed in/wanted to achieve and that he wanted to go out "swinging" and pushing every lunatic left cause he believed in for what he knew, was going to be his last political battle.
This "let the old man have his way on his career's deathbed" aspect of the Labor Party's catastrophic 1983 campaign, ultimately was allowed to happen for one chief reason. The remaining "blue dog" Labor types realized they would never be able to start fixing shit, purging Militant infiltrators, and moving the party back to the center unless the lunatic left and everything they believed in, was rejected to such a degree and in such a humiliating fashion, that the lunatic left would be so fucking broken by the scale of their defeat, that they would have no choice but to go away and let the adults run things.
