Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
2nd May 2012, 12:29
The Labour Party won the general election in a landslide victory, leaving the Conservatives in tatters after 18 years in power, with Scotland and Wales left devoid of Tory representation. *
The landslide represented a swing of 10.3% from the Conservative to Labour
Tony Blair's victory had been achieved on the lowest turnout - 71.2% - since the war, and the party had taken a modest 43.2% share of the vote
New Labour had taken more votes from women, the young, and the working class, and had for the first time secured more of the votes of the middle classes and owner occupiers than the Tories
A record 120 women were voted into Parliament and dubbed by the tabloid papers as "Blair's Babes" **
There were an unprecedented total of five women in Mr Blair's first Cabinet - Clare Short, Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman, Mo Mowlam and Ann Taylor.
(BBC History)
* In name at least :D
** Fucking hate the tedious, schoolboy mindset of the tabloids.
The landslide represented a swing of 10.3% from the Conservative to Labour
Tony Blair's victory had been achieved on the lowest turnout - 71.2% - since the war, and the party had taken a modest 43.2% share of the vote
New Labour had taken more votes from women, the young, and the working class, and had for the first time secured more of the votes of the middle classes and owner occupiers than the Tories
A record 120 women were voted into Parliament and dubbed by the tabloid papers as "Blair's Babes" **
There were an unprecedented total of five women in Mr Blair's first Cabinet - Clare Short, Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman, Mo Mowlam and Ann Taylor.
(BBC History)
* In name at least :D
** Fucking hate the tedious, schoolboy mindset of the tabloids.