Not quite enough....
Can we think back to the very recent past and the Labour Party leadership election? perhaps there are still some faint echos of the past that hold some lessons for those who are now condemning Mrs T..
Under Labour's electoral college voting system and not having learned the lessons of Maggie's reforms, David Milliband won a majority of support from Labour's MPs at Westminster and party members. But Ed was
ahead among members of trade unions and affiliated organisations in
Bear in mind that the vote of each MP can at least be taken to represent the many thousands of thier constituents who voted for them:
Final Votes: David Milliband Ed Milliband
MPs: 140 122
Party Members: 66,814 55,992
Affiliated Unions: 80,266 119,405
So the Unions were once again Kingmakers and stuff the popular vote!
Magnify that kind of 'holding the voters to ransom' by 10,000 and you have some idea of the situation at the end of the seventies
Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
Mrs T was right back then, and she's still right
