melanie
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Post by melanie on Feb 8, 2022 10:08:11 GMT
Let’s say the IRA gets the luckiest *plausible* outcome in the 1984 bombing and Maggie Thatcher and many important Tory figures die.
What does Lizzie Windsor do? What does Kinnock and British Labour do? Some trade unionists such as Scargill might be foolish enough to praise the IRA.
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Post by stevep on Feb 8, 2022 16:15:08 GMT
Let’s say the IRA gets the luckiest *plausible* outcome in the 1984 bombing and Maggie Thatcher and many important Tory figures die.
What does Lizzie Windsor do? What does Kinnock and British Labour do? Some trade unionists such as Scargill might be foolish enough to praise the IRA.
I think only the most idiotic would praise the IRA. And be roughly [and rightly] condemned for it.
The Tories would still have a clear majority unless so many MP's died that this was no longer the case. In which case you would probably have a caretaker government until a new general election. Which would almost certainly be won by the Tories  because of both the combination of a divided opposite and the mess of our electoral system and because of the sympathy vote that the Tories would get. However that would possibly take some time as the Tories would have to select a lot of new PPCs [Prospective Parliamentary Candidates] as well as a new leadership and front bench.
Ideally the non-Thatcherite elements of the Tory party would win the resultant power struggle rather than the fanatics and we might get a far more responsible government which could save a hell of a lot of suffering and economic damage. Although I could be being optimistic there.
The other factor that we have to consider is the reaction in regards to the IRA. You could see quite a clamp down on the IRA and possibly a big serge in Unionist terrorism as well. They were largely quiet by this time IIRC but that could change.
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because of both the combination of a divided opposite and the mess of our electoral system and because of the sympathy vote that the Tories would get. However that would possibly take some time as the Tories would have to select a lot of new PPCs [Prospective Parliamentary Candidates] as well as a new leadership and front bench.