Vox Populi - July 1967 General Election

[Barnes]

Okay... a few hours left, but if someone could provide possible explanations for a sudden Labour landslide, I'm all ears (out of ideas here given the background)

Well Labour did win in a landslide in '66...

Of course, they had been able to put off devaluation until after that election, but the balance of payments crisis was truly severe when they came into office and they had an extremely tenuous majority of four (which quickly shuttled down to two). My point being, Wilson's ability to show that Labour could lead an effective government helped immensely.

[Barnes]

It's interesting to see issues of social liberalism playing such a big role with this electorate. Many of the significant reforms done by Wilson's government in the '60s (decriminalization of homosexuality, abolition of capital punishment, etc) happened really only by accident through backbench pressures and some Liberals. These factors didn't really play any issue in the RL campaigns in the '60s and '70s.

Many of them were also exceedingly unpopular with the electorate.

[Barnes]

Also, does Labour still plan to institute currency decimalization, and, most importantly, did England win the World Cup?