Daniel Finkelstein highlights this fascinating graph over at Comment Central. The red line represents Labour's opinion poll ratings since 2005; the blue line those of John Major's government between 1992 and 1997. With the exception of a Labour spike during the "Brown bounce", the correlation sure is striking:
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David Lindsay
May 21st, 2008 5:45pmAnd what happened in 1997?
A government came to power on the essentially stolen votes of the core supporters of one of this country's traditional political parties.
It was economically identical to the government that it replaced, but committed to an unprecedented social (in the "lifestyle" sense) and constitutional revolution, and with a very pronounced warmongering streak based on hopeless unrealism.
Yes, it very well might be about to happen all over again. God help us all.