{"id":546516,"date":"2010-04-28T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T19:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/permanent-end-labour-party-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-28T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T19:27:27","slug":"why-the-coming-election-could-bring-the-permanent-end-of-the-uk-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546516","title":{"rendered":"Why The Coming Election Could Bring The PERMANENT End Of The UK Labour Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gordon Brown’s gaffe today in calling an old woman a bigot<\/a> for her opinions on Eastern Europeans belies bigger problems for a party now faced with becoming obsolete.<\/p>\n

The rise of the Liberal Democrats, through leader Nick Clegg’s masterful performances in the country’s first televised debates<\/a>, is putting pressure on a Labour Party which has been considered the only other since the 1920s.<\/p>\n

Then, the Liberal Party lost its opposition place<\/a> due to a rise in the upstart Labour Party, which better represented the country’s growing electorate after World War I.<\/p>\n

Now, the Liberal Democrats are making moves in the polls, either in the lead or right behind<\/a> the Conservatives. Their supporters are growing, and many are coming from the country’s middle ground, where Labour has claimed dominance since the rise of Tony Blair in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n

In the event of a coalition government, the Liberal Democrats may choose to work with the Conservatives leaving Labour outside government for the first time since 1997.<\/p>\n

But the party would also require the Conservatives to change rules on how MPs are voted for, potentially making the system proportionally representative. In a new election, which could be called as early as the fall, the Liberal Democrats could win a majority or even place second, with Labour falling to third.<\/p>\n

Labour then wouldn’t even be chief opposition party, and could face a series of high profile defections to the Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n

It has happened before…<\/p>\n

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Gordon Brown’s gaffe today in calling an old woman a bigot for her opinions on Eastern Europeans belies bigger problems for a party now faced with becoming obsolete. The rise of the Liberal Democrats, through leader Nick Clegg’s masterful performances in the country’s first televised debates, is putting pressure on a Labour Party which has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}