Also, in Britain, in 1979, there seemed to be a bit of a come back Jim Callaghan, all is forgiven mood, as the Thatcher government immediately started serving up the harsh economic medicine, with a 1% Labour lead after the budget that same June, and about 9% a few months later. (Callaghan still led the Labour party, before their difficulties from early 1981 onwards).

Perphaps eople get a bit nostalgic when you’re going.

That must have been before Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, John Reid and Dennis Skinner got into parliament?

If you look at the detailed tables in this poll you might well ask yourself whether you are in tune with Welsh voters at all. The age group in which Labour are weakest is 18-34, which suggests that Richard and Phil’s dad are correct in deducing that Wales is moving on from its historic tribal loyalties.

Once people are free to assess the policies on offer now and for the future, rather than relying on past laurels, then the prjudice you display becomes irrelevant.

Finally, as to your comment on the sanity of voters, I don’t know about Kensington bankers, but are you aware that for many years the only Communist in parliament was an hereditary peer ?

I advise you look up terms such as “genocide” in the dictionary before you use them.

After that, look up “3-day week” and “the British disease” in a 1970s history book, then “pneumoconiosis”.

And then, after all that book-work, think why 12 years of Labour hasn’t seen a single Thatcherite trades union act repealed.