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Originally Posted by rjt
I think Mrs Thatcher got it right when she said of the Lab/Lib Pact of the 1970s that its only real achievement was to give Liberal spokesman the thrilling illusion that they were important.
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Is that what she said? Interesting quote.
The whole aim of the Liberals (as they were then called) was to keep Mrs. Thatcher out for as long as possible. It was a tactic which thankfully failed - the Liberals became tarnished with the failures of the minority Labour Government they kept in office and paid for it with losses of many of their seats at the 1979 General Election.