Comments on: Farewell Roy Jenkins http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/uncategorized/farewell-roy-jenkins/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Daniel http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/uncategorized/farewell-roy-jenkins/comment-page-1/#comment-1197 Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:47:59 +0000 http://kalyr.co.uk/wordpress/?p=945#comment-1197 Thatchers major reforms happened in her second term. The SDP gained 26% of the vote and labour gained 32% of the vote in the 1983 election. So Healey was correct.

Benn was also correct. When Jenkins archieved everything he ever archieved through the Labour party, his defection was an act of betrayal on a scale with Blairs swing to the right.

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