Goodbye to the Working Class Social Change, Incompetence and Sleaze Push Labour to the Brink.
After 1979, Labour lost eight of the next eleven general elections. Working-class voters deserted, starting in 1970 when widespread abstention began, and the Conservatives won a majority of the working-class vote in 2019. Brexit was a consequence, and not the cause, of these massive changes._x000D_T...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Conrad Press, The,
2021.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | After 1979, Labour lost eight of the next eleven general elections. Working-class voters deserted, starting in 1970 when widespread abstention began, and the Conservatives won a majority of the working-class vote in 2019. Brexit was a consequence, and not the cause, of these massive changes._x000D_The number of manual workers, Labour's heartland vote, has collapsed and Britain is now a nation where the biggest occupational groups are shopworkers, education and NHS staff. Demographics have challenged Labour's ability to win._x000D_But that's not all. Labour's Parliamentary Party is now overwhel. |
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Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. Nuclear Power and Climate Change in the 1980s. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
ISBN: | 183978394X 9781839783944 |