Electoral earthquakes beget political revolutions. Clement Attlee’s crushing defeat of Winston Churchill in 1945 heralded the creation of Britain’s welfare state. Margaret Thatcher’s 144-seat majority in 1983 signalled a counter-revolution to roll back the frontiers of nationalisation. The three consecutive terms ushered in by Sir Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide upturned his party’s historical role as an occasional interlude between Tory administrations.
選舉地震引發政治革命。克萊門特•艾德禮(Clement Attlee)在1945年對溫斯頓•丘吉爾(Winston Churchill)的慘敗預示著英國福利國家的建立。瑪格麗特•撒切爾(Margaret Thatcher)在1983年以144個席位的多數優勢標誌着一場反革命,旨在收回國有化的領域。東尼•布萊爾(Tony Blair)在1997年的大選中連任三屆,顛覆了他的黨派在歷史上作爲託利黨政府之間偶爾的插曲的角色。