The General Election of 2010 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
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The 2010 election led to the first peacetime coalition government in Britain since 1931. It occurred in the midst of a financial crisis, with Britain facing a large budgetary deficit, necessitating a period of austerity. So difficult was Britain's economic position that Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, declared that 2010 was an election which any rational party would wish to lose.
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The Gordon Brown snippet in the radio booth is truly hilarious (starts just after 8 minutes in).
Looking at this video now, you can see the beginnings of the current politics of Brexit developing.
24:52 is it really a safe assumption to think that every UKIP voter would have voted Tory in the absence of a UKIP candidate?
9/10
Yes because UKIP outside of the Euroscepticism (which is cross party) the rest of UKIP's policy proposals are overwhelmingly Conservative. More conservative than the Tories in fact.
It’s what happened this year :/
@@coldwar45 Yes, but that's probably wasn't how working class voters were thinking at the time.
we know where NICK CLEGGS LOYALTIES LYE .. BIG BUSINESS. LOOK WHO HE'S WORKING FOR NOW PMSL..
Excellent!
Nick Clegg's face on the night of the General Election 2015 was priceless. Corrupt and you was sacked Mr Clegg.
michael martin was a Speaker who had problems actually speaking
nick clegg looked most ambitious in 2010 but we know he didn't do a lot after
The woman was a bigot going on about eastern europeans coming over here.
Are there not Eastern Europeans coming here in significant numbers? Shouting 'bigot' no longer works as an argument.