UK: Thatcher remains in office, calls for 1992 election

[brucejoel99]

The Tories definitely lose in 1992. If you consider the response to the Poll Tax (including the infamous Mid Staffordshire by-election), if Thatcher had survived the leadership challenge, then without a shadow of a doubt, her & the Tories would've been booted out of office in 1992.

People really don't give enough credit to Major & Patten's campaign in 1992; without the kind of desperate energy you saw from Major, who was young & able to throw himself completely into the campaign, & when you consider that Thatcher likely would've been surrounded by yes-men who would've assured her she was gonna survive while preparing themselves for the loss, the best the Tories could've hoped for would've been for Kinnock to have failed to get over the line & been forced to enter into a Lib-Lab pact/coalition with Ashdown & the Lib Dems.