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...first was his abandonment of the Labour Party. In the United States, he points out, politicians can switch parties and still run on personal charm. But in Britain, the populace votes for a party, he says, not a person...
...when MacFarquhar signed on in 1979 with the Social Democrats, a centrist spin-off group, he took quite a political risk. But he says he had to. "The Labour Party had a great tradition of reform in Britain, and now they're destroying themselves.... They're going very far to the left in manner which the British people, who are very sensible and moderate, will not tolerate...
...What we [Social Democrats] were trying to do was appeal to national unity against the increasing polarization between Left and Right," says MacFarquhar, who had served on several prestigious panels under Labour governments in the 1970s...
More likely, the real political effects of the strike will be to further damage, the Labour Party, which represents the miners interests more closely than any other in Parliament. The already beleaguered party will be further divided over those who support the strike add those who do not. And Labor will continue to suffer at the polls if the public believes that it is radicals like Scargill who are calling the shots...
...party. "When opposition to my government arose, I had two choices. I could either have resigned or held an election. As my resignation would have caused great trauma to the people of Jamaica. I decided to hold elections." The opposition party boycotted the December 1983 elections, and Seaga's Labour Party took all 60 seats in the Parliament...