{"id":2647,"date":"2010-05-05T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2010-05-05T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:10:55","slug":"the-long-uk-tory-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/05\/05\/the-long-uk-tory-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long UK Tory Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’ve been following the 2010 UK election which is tomorrow. I saw this John Ross article <\/a><\/strong>on the long-term Conservative decline in the UK. The Tories are likely to have the most seats after tomorrow, have a shot at getting a majority of the seats, and the bookies are expecting a Conservative victory<\/a><\/strong>. Nevertheless, even if the Conservatives get the expected 35-40% of the national vote, the overall trend is downwards. The Thatcher-Major era in the 80s and 90s saw Conservative support only in the low 40s. Ross notes that the recent rise of Labour since 1997 has a lot to do with the Tories being unpopular.<\/p>\n

\"\"Also of interest is the rise of the Liberals\/Liberal Democrats::<\/p>\n

\"\"Just like the current situation in Canada, the electorate is fragmented and the major parties are having a hard time gaining support.<\/p>\n

Twitterversion:<\/strong>: Graphs by John Ross show decline trend in UK Tory support since 1930. Labour seesaws & Liberals trend up. @Prof_K<\/a><\/p>\n

Song:: <\/strong>The {English} Beat-‘Stand Down Margaret’ – Reference to Margaret Thatcher, Tory UK PM, 1979-1990
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I’ve been following the 2010 UK election which is tomorrow. I saw this John Ross article on the long-term Conservative decline in the UK. The Tories are likely to have the most seats after tomorrow, have a shot at getting a majority of the seats, and the bookies are expecting a Conservative victory. Nevertheless, even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4460,4462,4378,4461,4196],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stand-down-margaret","tag-john-ross","tag-the-english-beat","tag-uk-elections","tag-uk-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}