BLOG: Deja Vu in the British Election
Nick Clegg’s and the Liberal Democrats successes in the British General Election campaign so far offer some interesting insights for UnitedFuture.
It is hard to escape the parallel with UnitedFuture’s 2002 campaign where, on the back of a television debate, we too came from nowhere to hold the balance of power.
In both instances, the success was due to the parties’ filling a perceived vacuum in the political environment of the time. In 2002, UnitedFuture succeeded because of our message about families and a commonsense approach. Nick Clegg’s success today is due to apparent public fatigue with the old politics of both Labour and the Conservatives.
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