Labour comes in 1893 (ind Labour Party) - 1900, 1918 before Labour are standing more than a handful of candidates. I think you're really thinking not of (either) Georgian Era but the Interwar period and yes the UK did have attempts to set up Radical Right parties. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Par...

Also, there were a ***lot*** of adverse economic events 1945-2008. If the black line is driven by economics ... are we pretending that economics just happened to get dramatically better at the end of WWII? And stayed perfectly flat throughout 70s oil shock?

And it doesn't stand up. Which is not to say this stuff is magically unaffected by economic events - a bad day for centre-left/right parties is a good day for everyone else.

Interesting new article on 'partisan intolerance' in the UK. Strength - focussing on concrete examples (headmaster says yes/no to a school talk from a politician not say assassination) and broad, unstipulated groups (Conservative/Labour politician)

* brain armour pictured below ** or a certificate saying you got top marks on the Hare Test

This meme is actually why I finally sat down and watched Community last year.

What about the giant fire-breathing ants?

"I'm the Real Victim"

Just enough not to misread natural political ageing - such that your centre-left bloc/coalition is going to be picking up ~70+% of the youngest voters, centre-right bloc/coalition going to pickup ~70+% of the oldest voters.

It's always going to be asinine to assert to defend the private provision of already state provided good *and* assert that it's a moral crime if the government removes tax exemption and the price goes up.

It's a pathology of thinking as certain kinds of votes as not reflecting preferences/values the way other votes do. Also *voteshare* is inherently an intertwined variable - what other party would they vote for since they don't seem keen on the CDU?

Here's the shorter, more amalgamated version. This is BES wave 8, so during the euref - but the wave 7 from before the campaign is pretty much the same. One reason I overindex on the top two is that the rest are not very interesting when you go looking for a deeper pattern.

Welp, false recall - Immigration and Sovereignty are the two big ones and then there's a huge list (which I must stress does not contain austerity! Economy general is - if I recall correctly) people saying leaving will be good for the economy).

But overall, there's a weird sense that parties have (i) gotten closer to political science than ever before (so much more focus on polling and values) (ii) but without really absorbing the *science* part leading to an even worse version of this:

Offtopic, but funny to find this in an article *all about stuff that people make up in their heard because it fits a narrative but isn't actually true*. The group they're talking about is the portion of the working class *that always supported centre-right/radical right govts*.

www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan... 80% is a bit high - depending which source, think you can reasonably round it to 60:40.

> 'the same equivocation' Feels like decades since the Labour Party has had any other policy (in this broad area). You'd think even brute repetition would grant some sort of facility, awareness or familiarity.

This is why I enjoyed the boardgame Churchill - it does, in fact, matter *quite a bit* how WWII ends - up to and including whether Germany's surrender is unconditional or conditional. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13...

So it's basically a bad idea. And the implementation of this stock genre ... is not so good or smooth either. Only one thing worked and made it memorable - you specialise your workers by ritually carving symbols into their backs. The one correct note that makes everything else sound so much worse.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese... Wow - never knew about these guys

Implications

Getting out of coal early, transport differences due to urbanisation/density differences + geography Hmm - here's an actual source rather than speculation: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Basically this, in essay form.

You don't say.