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The Deeper Meanings of Mr Major's Victory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Ghiţa Ionescu
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THESE NOTES TRY TO ASSESS THE DEEPER CAUSES OF Mr Major's electoral victory in the light of the Silent Revolution which is rapidly changing statecraft now all over the world. It is a lucky coincidence that the coming to power of Mr Major's own government takes place at the same time as the beginning of a new era in the organization of human affairs — the ‘no-more-world-wars’ era and its pragmatic spirit. Thus the readjustments and the innovations which the new British government may set in motion for the recovery of Britain will fit into the global changes already taking place. This, of course, assuming that the world policy-makers take up and strengthen the positive tendencies open now to the world, and the British policy-makers actively coordinate their national efforts with the overall transnational transformation in course, and indeed synchronically make Britain's impact on them. For every little bell tolls now for the world's thee, and the British bell sounds loudly enough.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1992 , pp. 311 - 329
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1992

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1 Mr Kinnock's last gaffe was to declare that the election was won by the Conservative‐dominated press and tabloids. He is probably too young to remember the significant moment when the official Labour newspaper, the high quality Daily Herald, closed. Had he remembered it he might have wondered why a party with millions of members, plus millions of TUC members, could not turn the Herald into a prosperous paper written by all the brilliant socialist intellectuals contributing the best of their talents? The sad answer is again the same: because socialist ideas were already exhausted. Even the Labour tabloid, the Daily Mirror, would have died without Mr Robert Maxwell's financial rescue.

2 In the Security Council in which Germany and Japan would like to replace some of the older members.